John D. Rockefeller Quotes
32 John D. Rockefeller quotes:
"The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit - a reputation and character."
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"It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy."
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"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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"Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive."
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"Competition is a sin."
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"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."
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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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"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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"The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets."
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"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it."
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"I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity."
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"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."
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"I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living."
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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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"I have ways of making money that you know nothing of."
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"The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other."
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"The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character."
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"[But longtime friend and competitor Robert Johnson, who founded BET, says,] To me, his achievements would rival those of any business person in America, ... He had charisma, tenacity and passion to convince people that there was such a thing as a black consumer market."
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"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."
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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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