When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERWhen work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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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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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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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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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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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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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 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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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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We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
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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 was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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