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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 588
AUTHOR: John Davison Rockefeller (1839–1937)
QUOTATION: I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
ATTRIBUTION: JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER.—Silas Hubbard, John D. Rockefeller and His Career, p. 72 (1904).

Hubbard states that this was a favorite saying of Rockefeller’s.
SUBJECTS: Failure