Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERDon’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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. ROCKEFELLEROften-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he’s got to keep running or bust!
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. ROCKEFELLERThe best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERA friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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. ROCKEFELLERThink of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERWhen work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERGiving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI 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