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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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John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.
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That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity?I care about others as well.
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A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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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 don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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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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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, and to give.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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