“Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my divi...” — John D. Rockefeller Quote

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

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

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

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.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.

I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.

All the central banks are doing is substituting one form of debt with another form of debt. They're issuing short term debt and using it to buy long term debt. In finance, we tend to think that's a neutral activity, even though those stimulus programs are huge.

We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.'