Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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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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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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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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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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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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Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
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The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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