Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERMy mother was given to a typical question: “We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?” But my wife’s typical question was “We have always done this. Why don’t we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?”
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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Competition is a sin.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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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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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn’t you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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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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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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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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