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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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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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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 have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
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The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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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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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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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 believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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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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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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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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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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Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.
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