Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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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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A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
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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 man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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My mother was given to a typical question: “We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?” But my wife’s typical question was “We have always done this. Why don’t we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?”
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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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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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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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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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.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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