John D Rockefeller on Innovation Quotes

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Go to the work with a heart for it."

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

"Every waste must be eliminated to achieve true economy."

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

"A man has no right to occupy the ground and call himself a hunter who has no bow and arrow."

"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 would rather give my money to a man who has shown he can make it than to a man who has shown he can only spend it."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance - do not sacrifice that to anything else."

"Our cup will truly run over only when we learn the art of sharing with others the abundance that has come to us."

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

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

"It is very important to remember that what other people think of you is none of your business."

"I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm than a man who knows everything."

"Standardization is the key to industrial dominance."

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

"Competition is a sin."