The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee, and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under…John D. Rockefeller
“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.”
“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.”
— JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER
Industrialist, co-founder of Standard Oil · 1839 – 1937
Co-founder of Standard Oil, John D. Rockefeller became America's first billionaire and is often regarded as the richest American of all time. In later life he turned to philanthropy, helping to found the University of Chicago and the Rockefeller Foundation.
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