Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERDo you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
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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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Own nothing, control everything.
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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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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.
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That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity? I care about others as well.
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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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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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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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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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 would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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I have nothing else to say other than I wasn’t corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn’t greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.
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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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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to 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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