Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI’m glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I’m glad many people read my book and found out the truth.
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Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.
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I wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.
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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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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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And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
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I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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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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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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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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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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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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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.
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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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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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I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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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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