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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
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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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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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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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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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 man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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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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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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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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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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he's got to keep running or bust!
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God gave me my money.
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I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.
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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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