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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/6188/">Quotes by <em>Rockefeller, John D.</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

John Davison Rockefeller (July 8, 1839 May 23, 1937) was an American capitalist most known for his role in the early petroleum industry and the founding of Standard Oil (ExxonMobil is the largest of its descendants). Through a number of widely-criticized business tactics, Rockefeller built Standard Oil into the largest oil refining business in the world, and was for a time himself the richest man in the United States. Adjusting for inflation, some have measured him as the richest human being ever. [1] Much of this wealth was then given away, resulting in his legacy as a great philanthropist. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty."

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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 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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"The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right."

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"If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it."

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"It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy."

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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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"The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun."

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"Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people."

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"God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, 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."

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