Actions Quotes Logo

John D. Rockefeller Quotes

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

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

Show More

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

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

A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily

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

I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like air or food or any...

Show More

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking da...

Show More

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

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

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

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meanin...

Show More

The only question with wealth is what you do with it.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I pay more for...

Show More

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

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bib...

Show More

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

Show More

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

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of...

Show More

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

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

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

It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already k...

Show More
Quotations by John D. Rockefeller

Related Authors

Picture of John D. Rockefeller

John D. Rockefeller

Business person

Born: 1839-07-08

Died: 1937-05-23

John Davison Rockefeller (8 July 1839 – 23 May 1937) was an American business tycoon, industrialist, and book-keeper, most famous for his role in the early petroleum-industry and the founding of Standard Oil. Measured in today's dollars, Rockefeller is the richest person in the history of mankind. He was also the first billionaire (in US dollars) in history. With his son John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and his advisor Frederick Taylor Gates, he established the Rockefeller Foundation, "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world."More