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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERHow much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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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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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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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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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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I wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.
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The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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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 never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn’t you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.
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I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
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I raised my prices since there wasn’t any competition it was just the smart thing to do. Why would I keep my prices up if their wasn’t anyone to beat?
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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