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?
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERWe 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.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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I 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.
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It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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Taxation 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.
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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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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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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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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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Own nothing, control everything.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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