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I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
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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I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.
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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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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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I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life's work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
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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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God gave me my money.
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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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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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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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The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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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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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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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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Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.
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