John D. Rockefeller Quotes

Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.

There's nothing wrong with making a lot of money, there's something wrong with keeping it.

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.

I think after a certain amount, I’m going to give almost everything I have to charity. What else can you do with it? You can't spend it, even if you try. I've been trying.

When you look at Regis, he really and truly does feel for those people, and I feel like I've done it too. You're giving away somebody else's money so what do you care? It's not your money.

I get great satisfaction from both business and philanthropy.

People who have money have an obligation. I wouldn't say I'm entitled to tell them what to do with it but to use it wisely.

Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to give. It has become a cost of doing business.

If one has been blessed or have been fortunate enough to have got much more than normal wealth, it is but natural that one expects a certain fiduciary responsibility in terms of how that wealth is applied, used and leveraged for purposes of society.

If I died tomorrow, I would regret growing so wealthy and still running the business when there are so many more people I could have helped.

I like being successful. Giving back is just a part of that.

I have a policy that I get to spend as much on myself as I give away.

Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.

The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary inability to exercise his inherent duty.

All of philanthropy is harnessing that urge to have your name on something, and using it for good.

I can't stand people who have all the money but do not even bother to help innocent children in any small way they possibly can.

A lot of people making a lot of money, billion, billions of dollars accumulating. Why are they coming for, finally, for philanthropy? Why the need for accumulating money, then doing philanthropy? What if one decided to start philanthropy from the day one?

You need to have a heart to help others and separate yourself from your money.

As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a helpful and sustainable way, but only on behalf of those who can pay. Government aid and philanthropy channel our caring for those who can't pay. But to provide rapid improvement for the poor we need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today.

Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity. Let the lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift, lest in seeking applause, thou lose thy reward. Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand and a closed mouth.

I have always been generous because I know that I have done well in life and I believe it is part of my duty to give back. So I am always been philanthropic.

I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it is his further duty to see it so applied and to do the most good for which it is capable.

It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.