Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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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Own nothing, control everything.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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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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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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I raised my prices since there wasn’t any competition it was just the smart thing to do. Why would I keep my prices up if their wasn’t anyone to beat?
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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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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