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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
John D. Rockefeller
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John D. Rockefeller
Age: 97 †
Born: 1839
Born: July 8
Died: 1937
Died: May 23
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Richford
New York
John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
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John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
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The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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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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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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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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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
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Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
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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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Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working-out of a law of nature and a law of God.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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God gave me my money.
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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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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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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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