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The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
John D. Rockefeller
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John D. Rockefeller
Age: 97 †
Born: 1839
Born: July 8
Died: 1937
Died: May 23
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John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
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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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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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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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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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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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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were giving him or her an opportunity to participate in a high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his or hers as is the duty of asking yours.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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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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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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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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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
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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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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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