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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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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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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.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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The common denominator for success is work.
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