Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI 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.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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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 know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.
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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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I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
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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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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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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 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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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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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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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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