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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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John Davison Rockefeller
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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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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.
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To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!
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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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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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I have nothing else to say other than I wasn't corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn't greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.
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We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
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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 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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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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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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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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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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