If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERIf my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERTo think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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. ROCKEFELLERI 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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe major fortunes in America have been made in land.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERGiving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLEROwn nothing, control everything.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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. ROCKEFELLERCapital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERGet rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER