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I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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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Richford
New York
John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
Sr.
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John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
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That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity?I care about others as well.
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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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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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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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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.
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I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
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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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I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
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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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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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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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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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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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