Frasi di John Davison Rockefeller jr

John Davison Rockefeller Jr. è stato un imprenditore statunitense.

Figlio ed erede del ricchissimo petroliere John Davison Rockefeller, controllò le fortune della famiglia Rockefeller nella prima metà del XX secolo e divenne un personaggio di riferimento per l'alta finanza. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. Gennaio 1874 – 11. Maggio 1960
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John Davison Rockefeller jr: Frasi in inglese

“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.”

Address to the students of Brown University, quoted in Ida Tarbell (1904) The History of the Standard Oil Company
Contesto: 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.

“I took responsibility early and, like my parents, I was serious.”

John D. Rockefeller, Jr: A Portrait (1956), p. 32

“The only question with wealth is what to do with it. It can be used for evil purposes or it can be an instrumentality for constructive social living.”

John D. Rockefeller, Jr: A Portrait (1956)
Contesto: I was born into it [wealth] and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food or any other element. The only question with wealth is what to do with it. It can be used for evil purposes or it can be an instrumentality for constructive social living.

“As for charity, it is injurious unless it helps the recipient become independent of it.”

Interview with Samuel Johnson Woolf, quoted in Drawn from Life (1932)

“My mother and father raised but one question: Is it right, is it duty?”

As quoted in The Rich man and the Kingdom : John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the Protestant establishment (1995) by Albert F. Schenkel, p. 13

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