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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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
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John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
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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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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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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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To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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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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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
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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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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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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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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.
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Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of 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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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 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.
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