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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.
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
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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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Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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To think! All that power and he wasn't even 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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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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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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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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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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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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The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working-out of a law of nature and a law of God.
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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 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 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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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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