John D Rockefeller on Goals Quotes

"I have no use for a man who fails to do his best."

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

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

"Every day that you do not start your day with a plan is a day that you have lost."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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 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."

"Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but your time, your love, your service."

"Get all the information you can and then use your own judgment."

"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 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 the money."

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

"I would rather be a self-made man than a man who was born into wealth."

"I never had the ambition to make a great fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build."

"If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it."

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

"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."

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

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