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John D. Rockefeller Quotes

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“The 3 and a half years of business training I had in that commission house formed a large part of the foundation of my business training.”
— John D. Rockefeller, Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years
Tagged: Obstacles
“Keep a stiff upper lip, clean up as you go, and the skies will brighten by and by.”
— John D. Rockefeller, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Tagged: Obstacles
“Oh how blessed young men are how have to struggle for a foundation and a beginning in life. I shall never cease to be grateful for the 3 and 1/2 years of apprenticeship and the difficulties to be overcome, all along the way.”
— John D. Rockefeller, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Tagged: Obstacles
“Just at the moment when I required the money most was he [Rockefeller's father] apt to say 'My son, I find I have got to have that money.'”
— John D. Rockefeller, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Tagged: Obstacles
“You could do or say the most outrageous things at this moment and I would not show the least sign of excitement.”
— John D. Rockefeller, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Tagged: Obstacles
“We do not intend merely to grasp the situation–we must control it.”
— John D. Rockefeller, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Tagged: Obstacles
“Perseverance: it overcomes almost everything, even nature.”
— John D. Rockefeller, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Tagged: Persevere
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