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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.
John D. Rockefeller
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John D. Rockefeller
Age: 97 †
Born: 1839
Born: July 8
Died: 1937
Died: May 23
Accountant
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Richford
New York
John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
Sr.
john d. rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
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This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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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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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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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 was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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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 day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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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