John D. Rockefeller's Quotes

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

John D. Rockefeller

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

John D. Rockefeller

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

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

John D. Rockefeller

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

John D. Rockefeller

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

John D. Rockefeller

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

John D. Rockefeller

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

John D. Rockefeller

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

John D. Rockefeller

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

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

John D. Rockefeller

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

John D. Rockefeller

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

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