I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERWell i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.
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God gave me my money.
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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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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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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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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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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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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
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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 believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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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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