John D. Rockefeller Quotes

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John D. Rockefeller

Profession : Businessman

Birth : July 8, 1839

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

John D. Rockefeller

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

John D. Rockefeller

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

John D. Rockefeller

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

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

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

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

John D. Rockefeller

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

John D. Rockefeller

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

John D. Rockefeller

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

John D. Rockefeller

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

John D. Rockefeller

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

John D. Rockefeller

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

John D. Rockefeller

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

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

John D. Rockefeller

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

John D. Rockefeller

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

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

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

John D. Rockefeller

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

John D. Rockefeller