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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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John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
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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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And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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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This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.
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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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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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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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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 American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working-out of a law of nature and a law of God.
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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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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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The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
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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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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.
John D. Rockefeller
Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
John D. Rockefeller
