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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.

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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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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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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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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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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.
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God gave me my money.
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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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I have nothing else to say other than I wasn't corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn't greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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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 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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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 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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