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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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
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John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
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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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The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working-out of a law of nature and a law of God.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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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 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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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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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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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 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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.
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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 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 always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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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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