John D. Rockefeller

Businessman
1839.07.08 - 1937.05.23

Sayings and Quotes

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 D. Rockefeller
Coffee People Sun Will
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller
Leadership Work Good People
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
John D. Rockefeller
Me You Finance Know
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller
Opportunity Responsibility Believe
The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
John D. Rockefeller
You Wealth Question Only
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
John D. Rockefeller
Life Success Wisdom Aim
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
John D. Rockefeller
Charity Independence Independent
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller
Work Good People Management
Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
John D. Rockefeller
You People Know Important
After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
John D. Rockefeller
Religion Man Important Over
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller
Friendship Business Better Than
I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
John D. Rockefeller
Money You Know Nothing
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
Learning Time Bible Better
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
John D. Rockefeller
Life Think Nothing I Can
Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
John D. Rockefeller
Way Giving Just Same
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
Nature Success Perseverance Quality
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
John D. Rockefeller
People My Own Own Earn
I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
John D. Rockefeller
Believe Living I Believe Thrift
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.
John D. Rockefeller
Life Me You Great
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