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John D. Rockefeller Quotes
12 quotes from John D. Rockefeller — Founder of Standard Oil, which controlled 90% of US oil refining..
“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”
“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.”
“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
“The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.”
“Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.”
“I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.”
“I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.”
“I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.”
“The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.”
“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.”
“Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.”
“I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.”