Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.
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The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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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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The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.
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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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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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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
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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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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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