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John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth

Book by John D. Rockefeller · 34 quotes · Men, Business, Giving

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John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth Quotes

“A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.”

“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.”

“Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.”

“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.”

“We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.”

“Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.”

“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.”

“I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

“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.”