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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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John D. Rockefeller Quotes Click here for John D. Rockefeller books John D. Rockefeller: Anointed with Oil (Oxford Portraits) "I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers." "I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience." "Competition is a sin." "I have ways of making money that you know nothing of." "Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient become independent." "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." "I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything." "Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty." "The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets." "I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living." "Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people." "I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity." "Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in." "Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim." "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 can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure." "It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy." "If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it." |
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