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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
John Davison Rockefeller
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Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
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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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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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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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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!
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I think it is a man's duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.
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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 way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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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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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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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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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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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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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 believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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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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