John D. Rockefeller Quotes

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

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

Competition is a sin.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

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

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