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I wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.
John D. Rockefeller
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John D. Rockefeller
Age: 97 †
Born: 1839
Born: July 8
Died: 1937
Died: May 23
Accountant
Banker
Business Person
Entrepreneur
Richford
New York
John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
Sr.
john d. rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
Company
Everyone
Lowering
Best
Prices
Wanted
Eventually
Beat
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Succeed
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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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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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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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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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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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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.
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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 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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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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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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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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