It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERGiving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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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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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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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he’s got to keep running or bust!
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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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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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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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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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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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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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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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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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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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 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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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
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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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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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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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