Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things fail because we lack concentration-the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERCharity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.
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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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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
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Competition is a sin.
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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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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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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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Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.
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