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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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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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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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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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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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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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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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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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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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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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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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.
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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 man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
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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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