John D. Rockefeller Quotes

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

Motivational, Success, Travel

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller

Friendship, Business, Founded

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller

Good, Great, Give

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

Leadership, Work, 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.
John D. Rockefeller

Success, Nature, Everything

Competition is a sin.
John D. Rockefeller

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

Living, Whether, Hand

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
John D. Rockefeller

Rather, Off, Efforts

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

Become, Unless, Charity

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.
John D. Rockefeller

Learning, Time, Thought

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
John D. Rockefeller

Goal, Rich, Become

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
John D. Rockefeller

Important, Next

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
John D. Rockefeller

Money, Nothing, Making

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
John D. Rockefeller

Nothing, Christian, Christ

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

Sun, Coffee, Pay

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller

Duty, Obligation, Possession

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

Finance, Money, Blood

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
John D. Rockefeller

Turn, Tried, Disaster

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.
John D. Rockefeller

Faith, Fight, Battle

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller

Duty, Obligation, 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.
John D. Rockefeller

Life, Great, School

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

Work, Good, Management

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

Finance, Coming, Pleasure

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
John D. Rockefeller

Character, Important, Young

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
John D. Rockefeller

Living, Essential, Thrift

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: July 8, 1839

Died: May 23, 1937

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