We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin ’em and I just beat ’em every time I can. I want to make ’em sharp.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
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Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things fail because we lack concentration-the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?
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Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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My mother was given to a typical question: “We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?” But my wife’s typical question was “We have always done this. Why don’t we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?”
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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
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