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. ROCKEFELLERI can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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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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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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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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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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Own nothing, control everything.
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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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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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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 the power to make money is a gift of God.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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