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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.
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 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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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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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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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
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Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he's got to keep running or bust!
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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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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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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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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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Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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