I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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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Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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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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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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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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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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Own nothing, control everything.
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I think it is a man’s duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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