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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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America
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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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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 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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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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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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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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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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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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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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 always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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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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That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity?I care about others as well.
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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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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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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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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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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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