Top 35 John D. Rockefeller Quotes

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A friendship founded on business is better than a busin

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
John D. Rockefeller
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
John D. Rockefeller
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.
John D. Rockefeller
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.
John D. Rockefeller
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
John D. Rockefeller
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
John D. Rockefeller
This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.
John D. Rockefeller
I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
John D. Rockefeller
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
John D. Rockefeller
I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
John D. Rockefeller
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
John D. Rockefeller
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller
Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
John D. Rockefeller
I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
John D. Rockefeller
Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
John D. Rockefeller
Competition is a sin.
John D. Rockefeller
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.
John D. Rockefeller
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
John D. Rockefeller
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller
There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
John D. Rockefeller
Competition is a sin.
John D. Rockefeller
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.
John D. Rockefeller
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
John D. Rockefeller
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
John D. Rockefeller
Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
John D. Rockefeller
Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
John D. Rockefeller
The most important thing for a young man is to establis

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.
John D. Rockefeller
There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
John D. Rockefeller
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
John D. Rockefeller
After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
John D. Rockefeller