I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe major fortunes in America have been made in land.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERWhen work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
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. ROCKEFELLERCharacter – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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. ROCKEFELLERIt is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI 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. ROCKEFELLERIt has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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 never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThere is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERNext to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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. ROCKEFELLER