The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERCharity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
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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.
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The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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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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Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
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I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin ’em and I just beat ’em every time I can. I want to make ’em sharp.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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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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The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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