Top 24 John D. Rockefeller Quotes



Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

 

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship

 

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

 

It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.

 

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

 

A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily

 

Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

 

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

 

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

 

I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like air or food or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.

 

The only question with wealth is what you do with it.

 

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

 

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

 

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

 

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.

 

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.

 

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

 

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

 

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

 

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

 

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

 

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.

 

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

 

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

 

 

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