Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERTaxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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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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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
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I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn’t you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.
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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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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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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
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There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
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I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.
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