John D. Rockefeller
The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.Collection: Successful
Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.Collection: Struggle
Character - not wealth, power, or position - is the supreme word.Collection: Character
A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.Collection: Men
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?Collection: Smart
Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.Collection: Thinking
Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.Collection: Running
Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.Collection: Common
I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.Collection: Failure
I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.Collection: Made
A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarilyCollection: Men
The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is 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.Collection: Ambition
When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.Collection: Work
I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin 'em and I just beat 'em every time I can. I want to make 'em sharp.Collection: Boys
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.Collection: Religious
Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.Collection: Long Ago
Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were giving him or her an opportunity to participate in a high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his or hers as is the duty of asking yours.Collection: Opportunity
Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.Collection: Wisdom
To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!Collection: Power
Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.Collection: Motivational
I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.Collection: Running
Probably the greatest single obstacle to the progress and happiness of the American people lies in the willingness of so many men to invest their time and money in multiplying competitive industries instead of opening up new fields, and putting their money into lines of industry and development that are needed.Collection: Lying
The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.Collection: Dream
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!Collection: Running
The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.Collection: Evil
A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.Collection: Murder
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.Collection: Religious
What constitutes a good manager in this field? He must be knowledgeable in the art with which he is concerned, an impresario, labor negotiator, diplomat, educator, publicity and public relations expert, politician, skilled businessman, a social sophisticate, a servant of the community, a tireless leader - becomingly humble before authority - a teacher, a tyrant, and a continuing student of the arts.Collection: Teacher
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.Collection: Wisdom
Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.Collection: Trying
When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when the evil effects of alcohol would be recognised. I have slowly and reluctantly come to believe that this has not been the result. Instead, drinking has generally increased; the speakeasy has replaced the saloon; a vast army of lawbreakers has appeared; many of our best citizens have openly ignored Prohibition; respect for the law has been greatly lessened; and crime has increased to a level never seen before.Collection: Drinking
Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you're doing in business.Collection: Way
I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.Collection: Believe
The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.Collection: Gone
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.Collection: Slave
I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.Collection: Done
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.Collection: Competition
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.Collection: Running
I think it is a man's duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.Collection: Business
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.Collection: Mother
The major fortunes in America have been made in land.Collection: America
My mother was given to a typical question: "We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?" But my wife's typical question was "We have always done this. Why don't we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?"Collection: Mother
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.Collection: Men
When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Air
You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.Collection: Successful
Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.Collection: Medicine