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God gave me my money.
John D. Rockefeller
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John D. Rockefeller
Age: 97 †
Born: 1839
Born: July 8
Died: 1937
Died: May 23
Accountant
Banker
Business Person
Entrepreneur
Richford
New York
John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
Sr.
john d. rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
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I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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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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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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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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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
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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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To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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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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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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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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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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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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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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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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Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
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