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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
Accountant
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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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The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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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 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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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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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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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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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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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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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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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 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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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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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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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And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
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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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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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