John D. Rockefeller

Profession
Businessman
Date of birth
July 08, 1839
Date of death
1937.05.23

Sayings and Quotes

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D. Rockefeller
Motivational Success You Travel
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
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller
Leadership Work Good People
We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
John D. Rockefeller
Faith Bible Fight Battle
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 D. Rockefeller
Man Opportunity World Believe
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 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 D. Rockefeller
Day Man Money Know
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
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
John D. Rockefeller
Man Character Important Reputation
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller
Opportunity Responsibility Believe
There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
John D. Rockefeller
World Nothing Christian Compare
I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
John D. Rockefeller
Money You Know Nothing
I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
John D. Rockefeller
Believe Living I Believe Thrift
The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
John D. Rockefeller
You Wealth Question Only
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
John D. Rockefeller
Charity Independence Independent
Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
John D. Rockefeller
Way Giving Just Same
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
John D. Rockefeller
Happy Men Wealth Wrong
After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
John D. Rockefeller
Religion Man Important Over
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller
Work Good People Management

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