Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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Competition is a sin.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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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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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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Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks
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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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The common denominator for success is work.
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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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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
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The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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Well 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 believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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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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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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