John D. Rockefeller Quotes - Page 5

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

  John D. Rockefeller

  Responsibility, Marketing, Bucks

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Medicine, Steps, Progressive

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• You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Successful, Prejudice, Enterprise

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• 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.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Should, Stifling, Labor

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• 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.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Cheer, Growing Up, Sacrifice

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• 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.

  John D. Rockefeller

  College, Men, Thinking

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.34, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Giving, Philanthropy, Philanthropy Giving

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• 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.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Christian, Use, Cooperation

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• I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Life, Believe, Pursuit Of Happiness

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.20, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn't you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Want, Faults, Said

  Source: jcdcvl.wordpress.com

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• Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound and there is nothing in the business situation to warrant the destruction of values that has taken place on the exchanges during the past week, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks. We are continuing and will continue our purchases in substantial amounts at levels which we believe represent sound investment values.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Country, Business, Believe

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• If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Names, Has Beens, Ifs

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• 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.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Christian, School, Sunday

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.24, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• God gave me my money.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Quoted in Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Rockefellers, an American Dynasty (1976)

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• Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Hard Work, Missing, May

  Source: jcdcvl.wordpress.com

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• I have nothing else to say other than I wasn't corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn't greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Smart, Decision, Charity

  Source: jcdcvl.wordpress.com

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• Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound ... my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks

  John D. Rockefeller

  Country, Believe, Son

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• That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity?I care about others as well.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Men, Charity, Care

  Source: jcdcvl.wordpress.com

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• I'm glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I'm glad many people read my book and found out the truth.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Book, Oil, People

  Source: jcdcvl.wordpress.com

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