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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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
New York
John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
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John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
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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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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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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 most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
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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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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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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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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 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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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
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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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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 always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.
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I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
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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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