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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller
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John D. Rockefeller
Age: 97 †
Born: 1839
Born: July 8
Died: 1937
Died: May 23
Accountant
Banker
Business Person
Entrepreneur
Richford
New York
John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
Sr.
john d. rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
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I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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I have nothing else to say other than I wasn't corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn't greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
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