Competition is a sin.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERCompetition is a sin.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe 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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERHow much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERA friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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. ROCKEFELLERSuccess comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
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. ROCKEFELLERNever lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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. ROCKEFELLERThe task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER