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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
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Richford
New York
John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
Sr.
john d. rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
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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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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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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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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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 do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
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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 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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To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!
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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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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
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