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. ROCKEFELLERIf my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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The 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.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks
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Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he’s got to keep running or bust!
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I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
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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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