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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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
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Richford
New York
John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
Sr.
john d. rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
America
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Land
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And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
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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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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 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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To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
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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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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.
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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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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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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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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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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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