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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.
— John D. Rockefeller
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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
— John D. Rockefeller
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
— John D. Rockefeller
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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
~ John D. Rockefeller
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"The men who have been very successful are correspondingly conservative, since they have much to lose in case of disaster."
~ John D. Rockefeller
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John D. Rockefeller once wrote a letter about his rival.
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David Rockefeller is the grandson of John D. Rockefeller - known to be one of the wealthiest Americans of all time
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John D. Rockefeller, one of the richest men in the world at the time, talking during the Great Depression, 1932
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John D. Rockefeller explained why chasing money will never make you rich.
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"Success comes from keeping your ears open and your mouth closed."
— John D. Rockefeller
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John D. Rockefeller gifting a 5 cent coin to a child on his 84th birthday, 1929.
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John D. Rockefeller literally shared the secret to winning any negotiation:
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After Bill Gates became friends with Warren Buffett, he began to diversify his portfolio and sold Microsoft shares.
Bill Gates' fortune today is 138 billion dollars, if he hadn't diversified it would be 1.33 trillion dollars.
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Friedman uses a classic analogy from Ronald Reagan to explain how retaliatory tariffs and trade barriers ultimately harm the home nation.
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High vs. low Return on invested Capital companies over time:
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
— John D. Rockefeller
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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.
— John D. Rockefeller
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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”.
~ John D. Rockefeller
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"We had with us a group of courageous men who recognized the great principle that a business cannot be a great success that does not fully and efficiently accept and take advantage of its opportunities."
~ John D. Rockefeller
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One of the last known photos of John D. Rockefeller, the richest man in modern history, was taken in April 1937
He died less than a month later, on May 23, at the age of 97.
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Life of John D Rockefeller
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John D Rockefeller granddaughter: The secret of wealth generation.
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Warren Buffett: “The bottom 2% in terms of income in the United States, the bottom 5%, and for sure the top 1% all live better than John D. Rockefeller was living when I was 6 years old.”
“John D. Rockefeller was the richest man in the world and, today, you can get better medicine, better education, better entertainment, better transportation. You can do everything better than he could.”
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“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
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“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success as the quality of perseverance.”
— John D. Rockefeller
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First Millionaire: John Astor (1800s)
First Billionaire: John D. Rockefeller (1916)
First Trillionaire: Elon Musk (2026)
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"I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts."
— John D. Rockefeller
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"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." — Friedrich Hayek
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“The consequences of minimum wage rates have been almost wholly bad—to increase unemployment and to increase poverty. Moreover, the effects have been concentrated on the groups that the do-gooders would most like to help.”
— Milton Friedman
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How missing just a few of the best days in the market impact returns:
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