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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
John D. Rockefeller
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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.
john d. rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
Work
Philanthropy
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Beginning
Give
Giving
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Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
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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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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
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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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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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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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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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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
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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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I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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