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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.
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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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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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working-out of a law of nature and a law of God.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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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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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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