John D. Rockefeller

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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Finance
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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Finance
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Religion
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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.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Faith
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Leadership
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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Travel
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Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Good
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Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Wisdom
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Independence
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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
Collection: Nature
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Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Work
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Money
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Business
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And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Learning
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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
Collection: Money
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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
- John D. Rockefeller
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Competition is a sin.
- John D. Rockefeller
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
- John D. Rockefeller
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
- John D. Rockefeller
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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.
- John D. Rockefeller
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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
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
- John D. Rockefeller
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
- John D. Rockefeller
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There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
- John D. Rockefeller
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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
- John D. Rockefeller
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
- John D. Rockefeller
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
- John D. Rockefeller
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I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
- John D. Rockefeller
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Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
- John D. Rockefeller
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
- John D. Rockefeller
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
- John D. Rockefeller
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
- John D. Rockefeller
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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
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I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Historical
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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Inspirational
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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Ears
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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.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Men
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I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Salary
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Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Happiness
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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Men
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Inspirational
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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.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Money
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Business
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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Sacrifice
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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Annoyed
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The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Success
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The common denominator for success is work.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Motivational
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Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Art
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It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: People
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I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Night