John D Rockefeller on Habits Quotes

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

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

"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."

"Go to the work with a heart that is clean and a purpose that is high."

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

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

"A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his importunity to his opportunity."

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

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

"I was always a great believer in the value of the small detail."

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

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

"The impression was gaining ground that I was a man who would never be satisfied until I had everything in sight."

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

"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 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."

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

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

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

"The person who starts simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition."

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

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

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

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

"It is very important to remember what other people have done for you and to be grateful."

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

"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."

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

"I attribute my success to my habit of keeping a little ledger in which I recorded every penny received and every penny spent."

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

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

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