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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.
John D. Rockefeller
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John D. Rockefeller
Age: 97 †
Born: 1839
Born: July 8
Died: 1937
Died: May 23
Accountant
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Richford
New York
John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
Sr.
john d. rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
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That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity?I care about others as well.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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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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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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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 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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