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John D. Rockefeller
American
Businessman
About the author
Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
John D. Rockefeller,
American
Businessman
#Right
#People
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
John D. Rockefeller,
American
Businessman
#Life
#Nothing
#Pleasure
I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
John D. Rockefeller,
American
Businessman
#Nothing
#Money
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,
American
Businessman
#Nothing
#Day
#Man
#Money
#Waking
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
John D. Rockefeller,
American
Businessman
#People
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D. Rockefeller,
American
Businessman
#Want
#Success
#Succeed
#Travel
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
John D. Rockefeller,
American
Businessman
#Men
#Wrong
#Wealth
I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
John D. Rockefeller,
American
Businessman
#Living
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
John D. Rockefeller,
American
Businessman
#Life
#Success
#May
#Purpose
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,
American
Businessman
#People
#Will
#Ability
#Coffee
#Sun
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
John D. Rockefeller,
American
Businessman
#Character
#Man
#Credit
#Reputation
The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
John D. Rockefeller,
American
Businessman
#Question
#Wealth
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
John D. Rockefeller,
American
Businessman
#Money
#Running
#Blood
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
John D. Rockefeller,
American
Businessman
#Will
#Goal
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
John D. Rockefeller,
American
Businessman
#Pleasure
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller,
American
Businessman
#Business
#Friendship
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,
American
Businessman
#Success
#Perseverance
#Nature
#Quality
Competition is a sin.
John D. Rockefeller,
American
Businessman
#Sin
#Competition
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller,
American
Businessman
#Right
#Responsibility
#Opportunity
#Duty
#Possession
#Obligation
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller,
American
Businessman
Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
John D. Rockefeller,
American
Businessman
#Blame
#Marketing
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller,
American
Businessman
#Right
#Responsibility
#Opportunity
#Duty
#Possession
#Obligation
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller,
American
Businessman
#People
#Work
#Leadership
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller,
American
Businessman
#People
#Work
#Management
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
John D. Rockefeller,
American
Businessman
#Opportunity
#Disaster
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,
American
Businessman
#World
#Dignity
#Man
#Living
#Labor
#Opportunity
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
John D. Rockefeller,
American
Businessman
#Charity