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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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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 was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
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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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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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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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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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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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I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life's work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.
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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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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Probably the greatest single obstacle to the progress and happiness of the American people lies in the willingness of so many men to invest their time and money in multiplying competitive industries instead of opening up new fields, and putting their money into lines of industry and development that are needed.
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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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I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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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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