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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
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Richford
New York
John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
Sr.
john d. rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
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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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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
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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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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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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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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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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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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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Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?
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God gave me my money.
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I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.
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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 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.
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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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