John D Rockefeller on Wealth Quotes

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

"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 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."

"I have never had the slightest doubt that I would be a rich man."

"God gave me my money."

"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 money."

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

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

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

"I was always a bookkeeper, and I have never lost the habit."

"I would rather have a little figure in a book than a big house."

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

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

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

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

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

"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—I dropped the worry on the way—and God was good to me every day."

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

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

"The commonest liability is the man who does not know that he does not know."

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

"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."

"Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life."

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

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

"Competition is a sin."

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

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

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

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

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