If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERIf you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERMy mother was given to a typical question: “We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?” But my wife’s typical question was “We have always done this. Why don’t we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?”
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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. ROCKEFELLERDon’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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. ROCKEFELLERThat is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity? I care about others as well.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERNever lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI’m glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I’m glad many people read my book and found out the truth.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERWe are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERIf my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLEROur cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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 secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER