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John D Rockefeller Inspirational Quotes (65)

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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
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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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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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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 friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity?I care about others as well.
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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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To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!
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I wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
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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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I have nothing else to say other than I wasn't corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn't greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.
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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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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he's got to keep running or bust!
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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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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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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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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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