John D. Rockefeller Quotes

I'm not going to run around uselessly spending money. It's a matter of choosing your charity. Some people choose themselves. For me, that is not enough.

I don't go looking for somewhere to spend my money. You can step on a tube of toothpaste for a week, if you have to. I spend what I need to and give it away.

Save one-third, live on one-third, and give away one-third

Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can.

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

The best way of enjoying your money is to spend it on other people. I don't need much.

What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance.

Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others. My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France.

I have always worked and I would say I'm generous with money - if somebody needed anything I would always give it to them.

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.

The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity.

It's best to start the discipline of generosity when the amounts are small. It's easy to give ten cents out of a dollar; it's a little harder to give a hundred thousand out of a million.

Cultivate the giving habit as you do the saving habit.

When God blesses you financially, don't raise your STANDARD OF LIVING. raise your STANDARD OF GIVING.

We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.

Give love, give help, give service, and give any little thing you can, but keep out barter.

If you give what you do not need, it is not giving.

Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand, and a closed mouth.

In the world take always the position of the giver.

Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.

As long as you tithe you cannot be greedy or needy.

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending when we didn't have it put us where we are today. Saving when we've got it will get us back to where we was before we went cuckoo.