John D. Rockefeller
Businessman
1839-07-08
Books by John D. Rockefeller
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38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son
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John D. Rockefeller interview, 1917-1920
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Random reminiscences of men and events
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Quotes by John D. Rockefeller
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship
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Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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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.
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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.
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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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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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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 always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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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.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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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.
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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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