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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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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Richford
New York
John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
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John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
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God gave me my money.
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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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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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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.
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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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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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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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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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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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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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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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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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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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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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