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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.
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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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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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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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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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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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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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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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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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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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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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 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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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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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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.
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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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