Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI raised my prices since there wasn’t any competition it was just the smart thing to do. Why would I keep my prices up if their wasn’t anyone to beat?
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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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 think it is a man’s duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.
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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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Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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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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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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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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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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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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