"The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working-out of a law of nature and a law of God."
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Businesspeople from the United StatesPhilanthropists from the United StatesPeople from ClevelandRockefeller familyBrown University alumni
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Address to the students of Brown University, quoted in Ida Tarbell (1904) The History of the Standard Oil Company
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John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. (January 29, 1874 β May 11, 1960) was an American businessman and philanthropist, the son and heir of John D. Rockefeller and the first president of the Rockefeller Foundation.
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