John D Rockefeller on Decision Making Quotes

"It is the duty of every man to make all the money he can, keep all he can, and give away all he can."

"I never would have been able to tithe the first dollar I ever made if I had not tithed the first penny I made."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure."

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

"Competition is a sin."

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

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

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

"Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in."

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

"I believe that the law was made for man, and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master."

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

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

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

"Every day is a day of judgment."

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

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

"I've always been an optimist."

"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."

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

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

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

"Our cup will always run over as long as we keep pouring into others."

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

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

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