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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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
Sr.
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John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
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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 was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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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 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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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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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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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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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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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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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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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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