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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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John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
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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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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
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God gave me my money.
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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 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 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 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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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 secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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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 would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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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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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 always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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