John D Rockefeller on Priorities Quotes

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

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

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

"I would rather have a large income from a few well-managed sources than a small income from many."

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

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

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

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

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

"Our first duty is to do our work well, and our second is to help others."

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

"The major priority of any business is to serve the public efficiently."

"Focus on the details, for the details make the whole."

"It is very important to remember what you are working for."

"Do not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

"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."

"Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing."

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

"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."

"Every day I set aside a time for quiet reflection on the business at hand."

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

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

"One should always keep a record of where every penny goes."

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

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

"Do not let the small things distract you from the grand design."

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

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

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

"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."

"Waste is the enemy of all progress; we must prioritize its elimination."