Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERDon’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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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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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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I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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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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I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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