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John Davison Rockefeller (8 July1839 – 23 May1937) was an American business tycoon, industrialist, and book-keeper, most famous for his role in the early petroleum-industry and the founding of Standard Oil.

Measured in today's dollars, Rockefeller is the richest person in the history of mankind. He was also the first billionaire (in US dollars) in history. With his son John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and his advisor Frederick Taylor Gates, he established the Rockefeller Foundation, "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world."

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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.
• “We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.”
• 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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