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Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
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.
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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.
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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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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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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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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 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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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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To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!
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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 way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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God gave me my money.
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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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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I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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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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