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I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.
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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New York
John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
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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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Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were giving him or her an opportunity to participate in a high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his or hers as is the duty of asking yours.
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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.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.
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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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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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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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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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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 wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.
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I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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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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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.
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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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