58 Inspirational John D Rockefeller Quotes to Broaden Our Thoughts

Quotes from John D Rockefeller

Below are John D. Rockefeller quotes that talk about education. Let’s have a read.

• “Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.” — John D. Rockefeller

• “The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day’s task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.” — John D. Rockefeller

• “A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.” — John D. Rockefeller

• “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?” — John D. Rockefeller

• “I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.” — John D. Rockefeller

• “I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.” — John D. Rockefeller

• “If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.” — John D. Rockefeller

• “I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.” — John D. Rockefeller

• “A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.” — John D. Rockefeller

• “Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.” — John D. Rockefeller

John D Rockefeller Famous Quotes

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Here are some popular John D. Rockefeller quotes you cannot miss. Enjoy.

• “If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” — John D. Rockefeller

• “Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.” — John D. Rockefeller

•  “Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.” — John D. Rockefeller

•  “I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.” — John D. Rockefeller

•  “A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.” — John D. Rockefeller

• “I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.” — John D. Rockefeller

• “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

• “The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?” — John D. Rockefeller

• “The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.” — John D. Rockefeller

• “If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.” — John D. Rockefeller

• “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

• “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” — John D. Rockefeller

• “Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.” — John D. Rockefeller

Famous Quotes by John D Rockefeller

We need money to purchase everything we want. Read these John D. Rockefeller quotes on money below to open our eyes.

• “Do you know what would hurt grandfather a great deal? To know that any of you boys should become wasteful, extravagant, careless with his money.” —  John D. Rockefeller

• “The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit – a reputation and character.” — John D. Rockefeller

• “I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God.” — John D. Rockefeller

• “Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” — John D. Rockefeller

• “I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.” — John D. Rockefeller

• “The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?” — John D. Rockefeller

• “Competition is a sin.” — John D. Rockefeller

• “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

• “I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.” — John D. Rockefeller

• “God gave me my money.” — John D. Rockefeller

• “The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.” — John D. Rockefeller

• “A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.” — John D. Rockefeller

John D Rockefeller Business Quotes

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If you are looking for some John D. Rockefeller quotes to broaden your thoughts, look no further.

• "Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing." — John D. Rockefeller

• "There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; Nothing that can satisfy but Christ." — John D. Rockefeller

• "Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege." — John D. Rockefeller

• "The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working-out of a law of nature and a law of God..” — John D. Rockefeller

• "I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world; that it alone can and will triumph over might." — John D. Rockefeller

• "If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success." — John D. Rockefeller

• "When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall." — John D. Rockefeller

• "After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession." — John D. Rockefeller

• "The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other." — John D. Rockefeller

• "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

• "I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man’s word should be as good as his bond; that character — not wealth or power or position — is of supreme worth.” — John D. Rockefeller

• "I have ways of making money that you know nothing of." — John D. Rockefeller