Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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Quotes by John D. Rockefeller
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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.
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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.
I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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.
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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.
I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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