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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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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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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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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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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
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God gave me my money.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
John D. Rockefeller
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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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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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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 don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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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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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!
John D. Rockefeller
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
John D. Rockefeller
When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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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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