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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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John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
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Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?
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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 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 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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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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God gave me my money.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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I have nothing else to say other than I wasn't corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn't greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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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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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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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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To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!
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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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