“To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!”

The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.

It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.

Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.

Often-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!

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.

Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.

How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.

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.

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

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.

The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.

I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.

The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth

Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

You have to, as an individual, know how to tune that stage of your life that’s in the past out.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Power to the peaceful.

God definitely blessed me with power. I still don’t know the limits of my own power.

I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.