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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

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.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

John D. Rockefeller

Opportunity

Disaster

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

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

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

John D. Rockefeller

Blame

Marketing

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Competition is a sin.

John D. Rockefeller

Competition

Sin

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.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

John D. Rockefeller

Business

Friendship

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

John D. Rockefeller

Pleasure