JOHN D ROCKEFELLER FAMOUS QUOTES

“The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit – a reputation and character.”

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

“I would rather earn 1% off 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.”

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”

“The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.”

“Control everything. Own nothing.”

“The most important thing is to be able to think clearly. That’s the most important thing.”

“The only question with wealth is what you do with 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 any other under the sun.” CAN T WAIT TO SEE MY BEST FRIEND QUOTES

“The opportunities for doing good in this world are as boundless as the universe and insistent as the voice of conscience.”

“I have always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.”

“Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

“The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest… 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.”

“The common denominator for success is work.”

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

“The day of combination of capital has come. Individualism has gone, never to return.”

“Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.”