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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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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Economics
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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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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I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn't you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.
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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 American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working-out of a law of nature and a law of God.
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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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To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!
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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 would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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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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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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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 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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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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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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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
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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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