John D. Rockefeller Quotes
An American industrialist. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy.
(1839 - 1937)
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
[Friendship]
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
[Charity]
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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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Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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God gave me my wealth.
[Wealth]
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
[Leadership]
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
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I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.
[Money]
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I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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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.
[Perseverance]
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I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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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 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.
[Wealth]
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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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