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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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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Entrepreneur
Richford
New York
John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
Sr.
john d. rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
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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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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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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
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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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The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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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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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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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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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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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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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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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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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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