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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERWhen 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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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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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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
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Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.
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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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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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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
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