John D Rockefeller Quotes

"A man has no right to occupy another man's time unnecessarily."

"Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions."

"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it."

"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?"

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

"Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing."

"Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people."

"I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity."

"I 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."

"I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty."

"I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living."

"I 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."

"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."

"I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build."

"I have no use for a man who has no time to give to the Lord's work."

"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."

"I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary."

"It has always been my rule in business to make everything count."

"It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy."

"I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts."

"Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing."

"Save when you can and not when you have to."

"Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim."

"Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed."

"The 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."

"The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest."

"The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money."

"The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit—a reputation, character."

"The only thing that gives me pleasure is to see my dividend coming in."

"There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right."

"The secret to success is to do the common thing uncommonly well."

"Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege."