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Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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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John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
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Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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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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I think it is a man's duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.
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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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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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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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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
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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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