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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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.
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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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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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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 would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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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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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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The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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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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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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 day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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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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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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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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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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