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I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
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 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.
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This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.
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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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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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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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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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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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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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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.
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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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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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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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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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