I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
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I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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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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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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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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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 major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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I think it is a man’s duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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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?
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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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Competition is a sin.
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I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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