John D. Rockefeller Quotes

You either master money, or, on some level, money masters you.

You must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Be your money's master, not its slave.

It really is understanding how to use money, and not let money use you.

Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.

Money has to serve, not to rule.

The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.

The wealth cure is looking at your life step by step - making a diagnosis and saying, 'Am I using money or is money using me?'

I make money, money doesn't make me.

I consider each of my dollars to be investment "soldiers," and their mission is "freedom."

My mother said, "Money is a great slave but a horrible master." It was her version of a French proverb.

If you work for money, you give the power to your employer. If your money works for you, you keep and control the power.

Money can't be cared about - it's got to be a tool that you use, because if you don't use it, it will use you.

You will never be powerful in life until you are powerful over your own money. How you think about it, how you feel about it and how you invest it.

You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.

Money is one form of power. But what is more powerful is financial education. Money comes and goes, but if you have the education about how money works, you gain power over it and can begin building wealth. The reason positive thinking alone does not work is because most people went to school and never learned how money works, so they spend their lives working for money.

It comes down to this: either you control money, or it controls you. To control money, you must manage it.

If you don't master money, it's going to master you.

When you understand that your self-worth is not determined by your net-worth, then you'll have financial freedom

The main reason people struggle financially is because they have spent years in school but learned nothing about money. The result is that people learn to work for money...but never learn to have money work for them.

The key factor that will determine your financial future is not the economy; the key factor is your philosophy.

After losing everything, I went on a quest to find out how money really works, how I could get control of it, and how I could have confidence in handling it.

Money is just a tool. It will take you anywhere you want, but you have to be the driver