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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.
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John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
Economics
Gift
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Power
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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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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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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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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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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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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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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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And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.
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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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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A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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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 know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
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