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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
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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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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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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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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 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.
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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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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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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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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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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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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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 way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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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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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
John D. Rockefeller
A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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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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Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were giving him or her an opportunity to participate in a high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his or hers as is the duty of asking yours.
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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 said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn't you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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