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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
Accountant
Banker
Business Person
Entrepreneur
Richford
New York
John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
Sr.
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John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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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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Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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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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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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To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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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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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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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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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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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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