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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERIf my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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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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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
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Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things fail because we lack concentration-the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?
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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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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
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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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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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