After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERCharacter – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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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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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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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 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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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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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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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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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Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks
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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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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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