I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERBe sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERIt is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERDon’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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. ROCKEFELLERI can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERIt is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLEROwn nothing, control everything.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERDo not many of us who fail to achieve big things fail because we lack concentration-the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER