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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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.
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John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
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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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I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life's work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
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When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
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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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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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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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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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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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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 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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Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.
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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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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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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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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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I wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.
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