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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
Sr.
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John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
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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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To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!
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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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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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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.
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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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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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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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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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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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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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I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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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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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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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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When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
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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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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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The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.
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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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