Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLEROften-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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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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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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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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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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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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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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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 have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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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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I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity? I care about others as well.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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I have nothing else to say other than I wasn’t corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn’t greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.
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I’m glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I’m glad many people read my book and found out the truth.
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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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