Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.John D. Rockefeller
I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
John D. Rockefeller
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John D. Rockefeller
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
John D. Rockefeller
God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.
John D. Rockefeller
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