Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI 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.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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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I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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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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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.
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A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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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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