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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller
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John D. Rockefeller
Age: 97 †
Born: 1839
Born: July 8
Died: 1937
Died: May 23
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Richford
New York
John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
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John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
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Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were giving him or her an opportunity to participate in a high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his or hers as is the duty of asking yours.
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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.
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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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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn't you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.
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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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I think it is a man's duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.
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I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.
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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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Probably the greatest single obstacle to the progress and happiness of the American people lies in the willingness of so many men to invest their time and money in multiplying competitive industries instead of opening up new fields, and putting their money into lines of industry and development that are needed.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.
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I wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.
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Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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