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.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Competition is a sin.

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

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

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

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

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

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

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

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

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.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

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

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

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

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

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

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

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.

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

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

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.