You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERYou know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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. 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. ROCKEFELLERI don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThink of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERGet rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERTo think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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. ROCKEFELLERI would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERWell i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLEROur cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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. 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. ROCKEFELLERWhen 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. ROCKEFELLER