John D Rockefeller

John D Rockefeller- "I would rather earn 1 % off a 100 people´s efforts than 100 % of my own efforts."


There’s no mystery in business success. If you do each day’s task successfully and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.

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

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

John D Rockefeller

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

John D Rockefeller

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

John D Rockefeller

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

John D Rockefeller

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

John D Rockefeller

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

John D Rockefeller

Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.

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

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

John D Rockefeller

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

John D Rockefeller

God gave me my money.

John D Rockefeller

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

John D Rockefeller

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.

John D Rockefeller

I believe the power to make money is a gift of God … to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.

John D Rockefeller

Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

John D Rockefeller

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

John D Rockefeller

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

John D Rockefeller

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

John D Rockefeller

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

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

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

John D Rockefeller

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

John D Rockefeller

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

John D Rockefeller

I believe in the dignity of labour, 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.

John D Rockefeller

Don´t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

John D Rockefeller

Competition is a sin.

John D Rockefeller

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

John D Rockefeller

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

John D Rockefeller