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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.
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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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 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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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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I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.
John D. Rockefeller
The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
John D. Rockefeller
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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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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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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I think it is a man's duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.
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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 man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
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A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
John D. Rockefeller
Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
John D. Rockefeller
The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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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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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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