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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 d. rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
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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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Probably the greatest single obstacle to the progress and happiness of the American people lies in the willingness of so many men to invest their time and money in multiplying competitive industries instead of opening up new fields, and putting their money into lines of industry and development that are needed.
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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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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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I have nothing else to say other than I wasn't corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn't greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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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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Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he's got to keep running or bust!
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
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To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!
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I wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.
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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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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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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 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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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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