Top 90 John D. Rockefeller Quotes
#1. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God ... to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.
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#2. I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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#4. The only thing which is of lasting benefit to a man is that which he does for himself. Money which comes to him without effort on his part is seldom a benefit and often a curse.
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#6. After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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#8. 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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#9. 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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#11. 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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#13. There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance
do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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#14. 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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#15. The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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#16. How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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#17. 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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#18. Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.
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#24. If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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#25. 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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#27. Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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#28. Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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#30. I shall use such influence as I have in emphasizing the basic truths common to all denominations, in lowering denominational barriers and in promoting effective cooperation among Christians of whatever creed.
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#31. You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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#32. 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?"
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#33. 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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#35. It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
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#38. When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
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#40. Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
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#43. We 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.
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#44. A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship
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#45. I was early taught to work as well as play,
My life has been one long, happy holiday;
Full of work and full of play-
I dropped the worry on the way-
And God was good to me every day.
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#46. When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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#47. A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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#48. I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy.
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#52. I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
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#54. 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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#55. 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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#57. Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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#58. Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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#59. There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
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#60. I do not think 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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#61. Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
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#62. The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.
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#64. Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
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#65. A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
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#66. 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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#69. Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were giving him or her an opportunity to participate in a high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his or hers as is the duty of asking yours.
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#72. I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin 'em and I just beat 'em every time I can. I want to make 'em sharp.
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#74. I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
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#75. Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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#76. Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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#78. Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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#79. 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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#81. I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
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#82. I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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#83. The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
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#85. The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I will pay more for that ability.
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#86. The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working-out of a law of nature and a law of God.
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#87. Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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#88. The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit ... a reputation, character.
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#90. Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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