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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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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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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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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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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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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 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.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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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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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
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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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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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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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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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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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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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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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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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