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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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Money
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Believe
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Economics
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God gave me my money.
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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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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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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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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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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 don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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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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The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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