John D Rockefeller on Confidence Quotes

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

"The only thing which is of lasting benefit to a man is that which he does for himself. Money which comes to him without effort on his part is seldom a benefit and often a curse."

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

"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."

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

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

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

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

"I was early taught to work as well as play, my life has been one long, happy holiday; full of work and full of play—I dropped the worry on the way—and God was good to me every day."

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

"He who works all day has no time to make money."

"The major fortunes in America have been made in land."

"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther."

"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."

"The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets."

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

"I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world; that it alone can overcome hate; that right can and will triumph over might."

"I would rather be the master of my own soul than the master of the world."

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

"Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the cracks."

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

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

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

"I have never been able to see why any man should be discouraged because he has to work."

"I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man's word should be as good as his bond."

"Giving is the secret of a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a man has of encouragement and sympathy."

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."

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

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

"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."

"I have ways of making money that you know nothing of."

"It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you tell them."

"Competition is a sin."