Famous Quotes / John D. Rockefeller
32 Quotations by John D. Rockefeller
- 1. A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- 2. As I study wealthy men, I can see but one way in which they can secure a real equivalent for money s ...
- 3. Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
- 4. Competition is a sin.
- 5. Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
- 6. God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God, to be developed and used ...
- 7. Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
- 8. Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
- 9. I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
- 10. I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living bu ...
- 11. I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit ...
- 12. I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possess ...
- 13. I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world, that it alone can overcome hate and that rig ...
- 14. I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God.
- 15. I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
- 16. I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of ...
- 17. I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to ...
- 18. I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking da ...
- 19. I would rather earn 1% of a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
- 20. I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.