Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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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I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin ’em and I just beat ’em every time I can. I want to make ’em sharp.
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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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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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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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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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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 the power to make money is a gift from God to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.
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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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I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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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 believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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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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