Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
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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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Own nothing, control everything.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
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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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When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve 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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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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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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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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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity? I care about others as well.
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