Quote: Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. [John Davison Rockefeller]
Quote: Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty. [John Davison Rockefeller]
Quote: It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy. [John Davison Rockefeller]
Quote: If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it. [John Davison Rockefeller]
Quote: 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 Davison Rockefeller]
Quote: 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 Davison Rockefeller]
Quote: Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. [John Davison Rockefeller]
Quote: I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. [John Davison Rockefeller]
Quote: 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 Davison Rockefeller]
Quote: I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity. [John Davison Rockefeller]
Quote: 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 Davison Rockefeller]
Quote: If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. [John Davison Rockefeller]
Quote: I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty. [John Davison Rockefeller]
Quote: I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build. [John Davison Rockefeller]
Quote: The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it? [John Davison Rockefeller]
Quote: I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. [John Davison Rockefeller]
Quote: A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. [John Davison Rockefeller]
Quote: Competition is a sin. [John Davison Rockefeller]
Quote: Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in [John Davison Rockefeller]
Quote: Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. [John Davison Rockefeller]
Quote: Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive. [John Davison Rockefeller]
Quote: Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. [John Davison Rockefeller]
Quote: I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living. [John Davison Rockefeller]
Quote: I have ways of making money that you know nothing of. [John Davison Rockefeller]
Quote: 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 Davison Rockefeller]