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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
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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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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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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
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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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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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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
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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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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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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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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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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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