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[[File:John-D-Rockefeller-sen.jpg|thumb|right|Try to turn every disaster into an [[opportunity]].]]
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'''[[w:John D. Rockefeller|John Davison Rockefeller]]''' ([[8 July]] [[1839]] – [[23 May]] [[1937]]) was an American business tycoon, industrialist, and book-keeper, most famous for his role in the early petroleum-industry and the founding of [[w:Standard Oil|Standard Oil]]. Measured in today's dollars, Rockefeller is the [[w:Wealthy_historical_figures#John_D._Rockefeller|richest person in the history of mankind]]. He was also the [[w:first billionaire|first billionaire (in US dollars)]] in history. With his son [[John D. Rockefeller, Jr.]] and his advisor [[w:Frederick Taylor Gates|Frederick Taylor Gates]], he established the [[w:Rockefeller Foundation|Rockefeller Foundation]], "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world."
'''[[w:John D. Rockefeller|John Davison Rockefeller]]''' ([[8 July]] [[1839]] – [[23 May]] [[1937]]) was an American business tycoon, industrialist, and book-keeper, most famous for his role in the early petroleum-industry and the founding of [[w:Standard Oil|Standard Oil]]. Measured in today's dollars, Rockefeller is the [[w:Wealthy_historical_figures#John_D._Rockefeller|richest person in the history of mankind]]. He was also the [[w:first billionaire|first billionaire (in US dollars)]] in history. With his son [[John D. Rockefeller, Jr.]] and his advisor [[w:Frederick Taylor Gates|Frederick Taylor Gates]], he established the [[w:Rockefeller Foundation|Rockefeller Foundation]], "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world."
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== Quotes ==
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<!-- [[File:John D. Rockefeller aged 18 - Project Gutenberg eText 17090.jpg|thumb|right|I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to [[success]] of any kind as the [[quality]] of [[perseverance]].]] -->
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[[File:John D. Rockefeller 1885.jpg|thumb|right|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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[[File:Rockefeller history.png|thumb|right|The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit — a reputation, [[character]].]]
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[[File:Jdr-king.JPG|thumb|right|[[God]] gave me my [[money]].]]
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[[File:Rockefellers.png|thumb|right|I [[believe]] the [[power]] to make [[money]] is a gift of [[God]] … to be developed and used to the best of our [[ability]] for the [[good]] of [[mankind]].]]
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[[File:John D. Rockefeller 1917 painting.jpg|thumb|right|If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.]]
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* '''The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.'''
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** [http://www.pagetutor.com/standard/chapter02_part1.html]
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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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** As quoted in ''How They Succeeded'' (1901) by Orison Swett Marden
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* '''It is wrong to assume that men of immense [[wealth]] are always [[happy]].'''
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** Attributed as a statement to his Bible class (1 April 1905) in "The Loneliness of John D. Rockefeller", ''Current Literature'' (November 1906) vol. 41 no. 5,
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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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**''Random Reminiscences of Men and Events'' (1906)
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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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**Remark to a neighbor, quoted by John Lewis in ''Cosmopolitan'' (1908)
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* '''God gave me my money.'''
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**''Women's Home Companion'' (1915), quoted in ''God's Gold'' (1932) by John T. Flynn
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* '''The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit — a reputation, [[character]].'''
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**''The Men Who Are Making America'' (1918) by Bertie Charles Forbes
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* I was early taught to [[work]] as well as play,<br>My life has been one long, happy holiday;<br>Full of work and full of play —<br>I dropped the worry on the way —<br>And [[God]] was good to me every day.
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** Verses written on his eighty-sixth birthday (8 July 1925) [http://www.anbhf.org/pdf/lee.pdf]
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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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**''TIME Magazine'' (21. May 1928) [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,731797,00.html]
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* '''I believe the [[power]] to make [[money]] is a gift of [[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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** Interview with William Hoster, quoted in ''God's Gold'' (1932) by John T. Flynn
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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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**Attributed in ''How to Win Friends and Influence People'' (1937) by Dale Carnegie
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* '''Try to turn every disaster into an [[opportunity]].'''
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**Attributed in ''The Rockefellers'' (1976) by Peter Collier and David Horowitz
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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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** As quoted in ''Steps to the Top'' (1985) by [[Zig Ziglar]], p. 16
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* The way to make [[money]] is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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** Attributed in ''The Fourth — And by Far the Most Recent 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said'' (1990) by Robert Byrne; attributed elsewhere to Nathan M. Rothschild
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* '''If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.'''
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** As quoted in ''Complete Speaker's and Toastmaster's Library'' (1992) edited by Jacob Morton Braude and Glenn Van Ekeren
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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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** As quoted in ''The Forbes Book of Business Quotations'' (2007) edited by Ted Goodman, p. 175
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* '''I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.'''
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** As quoted in ''Classic Wisdom for the Professional Life'' (2010) by Bryan Curtis, p. 75
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* '''The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.'''
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** John D. Rockefeller, age 41, in 1880 — Allan Nevins, John D. Rockefeller (New York: Scribner, 1959), I:622.
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==Disputed==
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* I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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**As quoted by Isaac Hewitt (1879) in testimony to the New York Assembly. Rockefeller doubted that he said this, according to ''John D. : The Founding Father of the Rockefellers'' (1980) by David Freeman Hawke; this is reminiscent of the remark attributed to [[Jesus]] in John 4:32: "I have meat to eat that ye know not of." (KJV)/"I have food to eat that you know nothing about." (NIV)
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* Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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** As quoted in ''The Harper Book of Quotations'' (1993) by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 71; the earliest published occurrence of such remarks yet located were those of Jim Low in "The Human in Public Relations" a diner address in ''Proceedings, Seventh Annual Meeting of the Agricultural Research Institute, October 13-14, 1958, Washington'', Pt. 3, p. 83
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* I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.
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** Attributed by Jim Marrs in the William Lewis film ''One Nation Under Siege'' (2008); no published occurrence of this has been located prior to ''The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy : How the New World Order, Man-Made Diseases, and Zombie Banks Are Destroying America'' (2010) by Jim Marrs
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== Misattributed ==
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* The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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** Though attributed to John D. Rockefeller, Sr. in ''I Want to Make Money in the Stock Market : Learn to Begin Investing Without Losing Your Life Savings'' (2006) by Chris M. Hart, p. 169; this is clearly a statement of his son, [[John D. Rockefeller, Jr.]], as quoted in ''John D. Rockefeller, Jr: A Portrait'' (1956) by Raymond Blaine Fosdick, p. 189: '''The only question with wealth is what to do with it. It can be used for evil purposes or it can be an instrumentality for constructive social living.'''
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== Quotes about Rockefeller ==
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* My mother and father raised but one question: Is it right, is it duty?
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** [[John D. Rockefeller, Jr.]], as quoted in ''The Rich Man and the Kingdom : John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the Protestant establishment'' (1995) by Albert F. Schenkel, p. 13
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* I took responsibility early and, like my parents, I was serious.
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** [[John D. Rockefeller, Jr.]], as quoted in ''John D. Rockefeller, Jr : A Portrait'' (1956) by Raymond Blaine Fosdick, p. 32
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==External links==
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{{wikipedia}}
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* {{gutenberg author| id=John+D.+Rockefeller | name=John D. Rockefeller}}
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*[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/filmmore/pt.html American Experience: ''The Rockefellers''] ([[w:PBS|PBS]])
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**[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/timeline/ Timeline of the Rockefeller family history since his birth]
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*[http://archive.rockefeller.edu/publications/biblio/bibliofamily.php The Rockefeller Archive Center: The authorised Rockefeller family bibliography]
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*[http://www.micheloud.com/FXM/SO/index.htm Illustrated article about John D Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company]
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*[http://www.goldarths.com/Regulars/Reviews_and_Commentary/Legacy_of_Giving/ Article examining the philanthropy of noted industrialists including John D Rockefeller]
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*[http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0708.html Obituary, ''The New York Times'' (24 May 1937)]
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*[http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/17/reviews/980517.17beattyt.html?_r=1&oref=slogin "A Capital Life", a ''New York Times'' book review of ''Titan'' by Ron Chernow (1998).]
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*[http://www.askmen.com/toys/top_10/11b_top_10_list.html Top ten richest men]
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