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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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Richford
New York
John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
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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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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
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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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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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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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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 secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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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.
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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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 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 man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
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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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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.
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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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Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.
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Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were giving him or her an opportunity to participate in a high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his or hers as is the duty of asking yours.
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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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