John D. Rockefeller Quotes

When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.

Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.

The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.

Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he's got to keep running or bust!

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.

Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound ... my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks

There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else.

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

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.

Character - not wealth, power, or position - is the supreme word.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

I wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.

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

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 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. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working-out of a law of nature and a law of God.

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

Save when you can and not when you have to.

Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.

The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.

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

The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.

I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.

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

Own nothing, control everything.

I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.

The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.

I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.

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

Many of the deficiencies of our economic system could be alleviated if ways were found to broaden the ownership of the means of production... This has happened in some companies through ESOPs. Successful approaches of this sort would pay dividends in terms of employee commitment and morale. And they would not deprive anyone of his present holdings since they are based on future growth.

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 don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers

It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.

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

Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.

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

I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn't you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.

I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.

How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.

Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.

I raised my prices since there wasn't any competition it was just the smart thing to do. Why would I keep my prices up if their wasn't anyone to beat?

It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.

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

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 task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.

Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.

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

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?