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. ROCKEFELLERCharacter – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift from God to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.
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Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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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 man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin ’em and I just beat ’em every time I can. I want to make ’em sharp.
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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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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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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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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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Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.
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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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I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
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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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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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Competition is a sin.
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