My mother was given to a typical question: “We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?” But my wife’s typical question was “We have always done this. Why don’t we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?”
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERNever 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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I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
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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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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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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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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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Competition is a sin.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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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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