About John D. Rockefeller

Founder of Standard Oil and a major American philanthropist. (1839-1937)

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• Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity.As quoted in The Rockefellers by Peter Collier and David Horowitz (1976)
• I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
• If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

More quotes on habits and discipline

• How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself.Marcus Aurelius
• First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.Epictetus
• No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.Epictetus
• Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.Epictetus
• If you would be a good reader, read; if a writer, write.Epictetus
• Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.Sun Tzu

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