John D. Rockefeller Quotes

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

John D. Rockefeller

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• I'm extremely competitive with myself. But I'm not actively competitive with other women in the business. Which may have been a mistake. I've never had someone in my life, agent or otherwise, fighting for me.

  

  Kim Basinger
  • Life
  • Women
  • May

• Liability limit has become a symbol of corporate greed in passing the risk of disaster to the U.S. government and U.S. citizens.

  

  Marvin Ammori
  • Risk
  • Greed

• The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Past
  • Image
  • Brilliance

• One might feel that, at my age, I should look on life with more gravity. After all, I've been privileged to listen, firsthand, tosome of the most profound thinkers of my daywho were all beset by gloom over the condition the world had gotten into. Then why can't I view it with anything but amusement?

  

  Anita Loos
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

• I was shamed.My son, Bill, who was 14 come to me and said: "Mother, you've been professing that you're an atheist for a long time now. Well, I don't believe in God either, but every day in school I'm forced to say prayers, and I feel like a hypocrite. Why should I be compelled to betray my beliefs?" I couldn't answer him.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party, had asked my people to take to the streets, the very existence of the federation would have been threatened.

  

  Asif Ali Zardari
  • People
  • Party
  • Wife

• We need more than new policies. We need a new worldview, and a new bottom line. We need to replace economic values as our ordering principle, with humanitarian values as our ordering principle.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Policies
  • Worldview
  • Bottom Line

• Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Society
  • Wit

• the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty.

  

  William Landay
  • Mind
  • Guilty
  • Doe

• It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.

  

  William Osler
  • Men
  • Home
  • Health

• Nature's old felicities.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Nature
  • Felicity

• I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Wear
  • Veil
  • Never Wanted

• I'm not proposing that you let the crowd dictate, or that you work hard to fit in. Far from it. I'm proposing that you know the impact your choices are having and act accordingly.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Choices
  • Marketing
  • Impact

• One plus one equals three. When a man and woman marry they become one never two.

  

  Eddie George
  • Woman
  • Marry
  • Equals

• I pray you never stand at any crossroads in your own lives, but if you do, if the darkness seems so total, if you think there is no way out, remember, never ever give up. The darker the night, the brighter the dawn, and when it gets really, really dark, this is when one sees the true brilliance of the stars.

  

  Gerda Weissmann Klein
  • Night
  • Darkness
  • Give Up

• Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

  

  John D. Rockefeller
  • Give Up
  • Be Afraid
  • Go For