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. ROCKEFELLERIt is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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I shall use such influence as I have in emphasizing the basic truths common to all denominations, in lowering denominational barriers and in promoting effective cooperation among Christians of whatever creed.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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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 would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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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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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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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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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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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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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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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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