All Quotes by John D. Rockefeller
“Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.”
“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”
“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.”
“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.”
“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”
“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”
“It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.”
“I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.”
“The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.”
““We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.””
“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”
“It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.”
“I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.”
“Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.”
“God gave me my money.”
“The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit — a reputation, character.”
“I was early taught to work as well as play,And God was good to me every day.”
“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 believe the power to make money is a gift of God … to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.”
“The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee, and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.”
“Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity.”
“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”
“The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.”
“If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.”
“Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.”
“I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.”
“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.”
“The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.”
“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”
“The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.”
“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.”
“The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.”
“Competition is a sin.”
“I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.”
“If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.”
“There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.”
“Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.”
“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”
“Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.”
“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.”
“It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.”
“After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.”
“This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.”
“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.”
“And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.”
“I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.”
“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”
“Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.”
“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”
“I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.”
“The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.”
“I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.”
“Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.”
“Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.”
“I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.”
“I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.”
“I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.”
“I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.”
“And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.”
“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.”
“Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.”
“I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.”
“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.”
“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”
“The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.”