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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.
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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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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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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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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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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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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 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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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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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 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 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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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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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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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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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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I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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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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