54 result(s) for John D. Rockefeller Quotes.
"The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well."
"Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure."
"The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition."
"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 person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age."
"The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed; you must have a larger ambition."
"I was early taught to work as well as play, My life has been one long, happy holiday."
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"If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it."
"The most important thing in any business is you must never lose money."
"Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things...fail because we lack concentration - the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?"
"God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God."
"I would rather make 1% off a 100 people's efforts, than 100% off my own efforts."
"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty."
"Will is character in action."
"I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance."
"The major fortunes in America have been made in land."
"The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?"
"Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim."
"A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder."
"I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living."
"The common denominator for success is work."
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"I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure."
"The person who starts simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition."
"Do not many of us who fail to achieve big, bold things...fail because we lack concentration - the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?"
"I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build."
"I can think of nothing else but business. It absorbs all my waking thoughts."
"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."
"Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege."
"A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds."
"I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything."
"The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets."
"I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity."
"The person who starts simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed; you must have a larger ambition."
"Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive."
"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."
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"I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts."
"The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well."
"I have ways of making money that you know nothing of."
"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."
"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."
"Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim."
"Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people."
"The only question with wealth is what you do with it."
"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it."
"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."
"I would rather make 1 percent on the efforts of 100 people than 100 percent on my own efforts."
"I believe the power to make money is a gift from God."
"The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit - a reputation and character."
"The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have."
"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."
"Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people."
"Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive."
"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."
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