John D Rockefeller on Work Quotes

"I would rather have a man of great ability and no experience than a man of no ability and great experience."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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 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."

"It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you tell them."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Competition is a sin."

"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."

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

"I believe that the law was made for man, and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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