John D. Rockefeller
American industrialist: founder Exxon
Lived from: 1839-1937
Category: Economists and businessmen
Quotes: John D. Rockefeller
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John D. Rockefeller
0Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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John D. Rockefeller
0Competition is a sin.
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John D. Rockefeller
0Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
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John D. Rockefeller
0Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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John D. Rockefeller
0Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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John D. Rockefeller
0Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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John D. Rockefeller
0I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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John D. Rockefeller
0I 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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John D. Rockefeller
0I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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John D. Rockefeller
0I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty.
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John D. Rockefeller
0I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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John D. Rockefeller
0I 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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John D. Rockefeller
0I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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John D. Rockefeller
0I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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John D. Rockefeller
0I 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.
