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.
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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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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I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
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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 would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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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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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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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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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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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I raised my prices since there wasn’t any competition it was just the smart thing to do. Why would I keep my prices up if their wasn’t anyone to beat?
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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