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"29 John D. Rockefeller Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 8 July 1839. Died: 23 May 1937 | Business magnate | Philanthropist |

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.

Opportunity Living Dignity Labor
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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Want Should Path Success
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Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Afraid Give Go Good
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

Duty Every Every Opportunity Implies
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

Character Credit Establish Important
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Always Disaster Every Opportunity
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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Earn Efforts My Own Off
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

Blood Buy Make Money
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
Better Business Founded Friendship
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

Believe Essential I Believe I Believe That
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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Coming Dividends Do You Know Gives
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

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

Devoted I Can Less Life
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

Become Charity Helps Independent
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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.

Aim Chief Essentials Life
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
Achieve Become Goal Never
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Always Assume Happy Immense
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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.

Ability Any Coffee Commodity
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Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Average Average People Consists Good
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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.

Day Despicable Hours Know
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

Only Question Wealth You
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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.

Almost Almost Everything Any Essential
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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.

Doing Doing The Right Thing Important Important Thing
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Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

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

Christ Christian Compare Fellowship
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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.

Advice Against Battle Bible
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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.

Better Bible Each Each Time
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
After His Important Man
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

Entered Giving Investing Just
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John D. Rockefeller Quotes & Sayings