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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.
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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John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
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The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
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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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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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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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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 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 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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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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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.
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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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We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
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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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Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!
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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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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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