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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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.
john d. rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
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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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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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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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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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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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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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God gave me my money.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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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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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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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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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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Probably the greatest single obstacle to the progress and happiness of the American people lies in the willingness of so many men to invest their time and money in multiplying competitive industries instead of opening up new fields, and putting their money into lines of industry and development that are needed.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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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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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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