I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERCharity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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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.
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I have nothing else to say other than I wasn’t corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn’t greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.
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I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.
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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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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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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.
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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
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God gave me my money.
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Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks
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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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