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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.
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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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.
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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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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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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 would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
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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 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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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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