John D Rockefeller on Vision Quotes

"Every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty."

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

"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."

"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 do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance."

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

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

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

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

"The only thing which is of lasting benefit to a man is that which he does for himself."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"Growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest."

"I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living and that economy is a prime requisite of a sound financial structure."

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

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

"Character, not wealth or power or position, is of supreme worth."

"I never had an ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making was never my goal, I had an ambition to build."

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

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

"The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it."