Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe 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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Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
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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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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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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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I shall use such influence as I have in emphasizing the basic truths common to all denominations, in lowering denominational barriers and in promoting effective cooperation among Christians of whatever creed.
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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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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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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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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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