Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERTaxation 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.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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Competition is a sin.
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I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
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I 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.
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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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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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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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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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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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