John D. Rockefeller Quotes
"I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure."
- John D. Rockefeller
(Related: Life, Nothing, Pleasure)
"I have ways of making money that you know nothing of."
- John D. Rockefeller
(Related: Money, Nothing)
"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."
- John D. Rockefeller
(Related: Money, Day, Man, Nothing, Waking)
"I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts."
- John D. Rockefeller
(Related: People)
"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."
- John D. Rockefeller
(Related: Success, Travel, Succeed, Want)
"It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy."
- John D. Rockefeller
(Related: Men, Wealth, Wrong)
"I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living."
- John D. Rockefeller
(Related: Living)
"Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim."
- John D. Rockefeller
(Related: Success, Life, Purpose, May)
"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."
- John D. Rockefeller
(Related: People, Ability, Coffee, Sun, Will)
"The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character."
- John D. Rockefeller
(Related: Character, Credit, Man, Reputation)
"The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?"
- John D. Rockefeller
(Related: Wealth, Question)
"The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets."
- John D. Rockefeller
(Related: Money, Blood, Running)
"If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it."
- John D. Rockefeller
(Related: Goal, Will)
"Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in."
- John D. Rockefeller
(Related: Pleasure)
"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."
- John D. Rockefeller
(Related: Business, Friendship)
"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."
- John D. Rockefeller
(Related: Nature, Success, Quality, Perseverance)
"Competition is a sin."
- John D. Rockefeller
(Related: Competition, Sin)
"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty."
- John D. Rockefeller
(Related: Opportunity, Duty, Obligation, Possession, Responsibility, Right)
"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."
- John D. Rockefeller
"Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive."
- John D. Rockefeller
(Related: Blame, Marketing)
"Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty."
- John D. Rockefeller
(Related: Opportunity, Duty, Obligation, Possession, Responsibility, Right)
"Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people."
- John D. Rockefeller
(Related: Leadership, Work, People)
"Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people."
- John D. Rockefeller
(Related: Work, People, Management)
"I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity."
- John D. Rockefeller
(Related: Opportunity, Disaster)
"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."
- John D. Rockefeller
(Related: Opportunity, Dignity, Labor, Living, Man, World)
"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it."
- John D. Rockefeller
(Related: Charity)