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Philanthropist?
Once Rockefeller retired from his operations of business of the Standard Oil around the 1890's, he was influence by the tycoon Andrew Carnegie, who had also made a vast fortune due to his steel company became a philanthropist, giving away a large sum of his money.
Not to be out done, Rockefeller had donated more than half a billion dollars to many scientific, educational and even religious causes. In his retired years he help funded the University of Chicago and also the Rockefeller Institute for a Medical Research, now known as Rockefeller University.
"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; very possession, a duty." J.D. Rockefeller