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. ROCKEFELLERThat 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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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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Competition is a sin.
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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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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin ’em and I just beat ’em every time I can. I want to make ’em sharp.
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I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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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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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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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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The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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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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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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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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