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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.
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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I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
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I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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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 never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn't you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.
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This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.
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To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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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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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 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.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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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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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
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