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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
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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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I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.
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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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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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To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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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 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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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.
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Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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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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 would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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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
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
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