John D. Rockefeller Short Quotes

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I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers

John D. Rockefeller
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.

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Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.

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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.

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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

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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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Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

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A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.

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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit — a reputation, character.

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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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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

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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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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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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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There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

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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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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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It requires a better type of mind to seek out and to support or to create the new than to follow the worn paths of accepted success.
Sometimes misquoted as: 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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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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