John D. Rockefeller Quotes

Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.

The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.

It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.

God gave me my money.

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

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin 'em and I just beat 'em every time I can. I want to make 'em sharp.

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

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

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

The major fortunes in America have been made in land.

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

I think it is a man's duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.

The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.

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

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.

Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.

The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.

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.

The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.

Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.

I believe the power to make money is a gift from God...to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.

I wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.

I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.

Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you're doing in business.

I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.

Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.

If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.

Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.

Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.

Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.

I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn't you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.

You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.

When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.

When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.

I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.

I'm glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I'm glad many people read my book and found out the truth.

We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.

The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.

That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity?I care about others as well.

Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound ... my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks

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