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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.
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John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
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More quotes by John D. Rockefeller
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.
John D. Rockefeller
Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
John D. Rockefeller
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.
John D. Rockefeller
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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.
John D. Rockefeller
You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
John D. Rockefeller
The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
John D. Rockefeller
To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!
John D. Rockefeller
Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
John D. Rockefeller
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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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 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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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
John D. Rockefeller
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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Probably the greatest single obstacle to the progress and happiness of the American people lies in the willingness of so many men to invest their time and money in multiplying competitive industries instead of opening up new fields, and putting their money into lines of industry and development that are needed.
John D. Rockefeller
Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
John D. Rockefeller
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller
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.
John D. Rockefeller
When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
John D. Rockefeller
