John D. Rockefeller on business
John D. Rockefeller112 quotes“The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?”
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller I 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. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller Do 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. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks
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