The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERIt is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERGet rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThere is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI think it is a man’s duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERNever lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI 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. ROCKEFELLERGood leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERA friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERBelieving that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERWe 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