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. ROCKEFELLERThe man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
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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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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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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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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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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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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
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I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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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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