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The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.
— John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
— John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Character - not wealth, power, or position - is the supreme word.
— John D. Rockefeller
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
— 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
If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.
— John D. Rockefeller
Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
— John D. Rockefeller
And 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 can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
— John D. Rockefeller
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.
— 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
Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller.
— Brad Holland
I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
— John D. Rockefeller
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit ... a reputation, character.
— John D. Rockefeller
It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
— John D. Rockefeller
I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
— John D. Rockefeller
A man has no right to occupy another man's time unnecessarily
— John D. Rockefeller
To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!
— John D. Rockefeller
I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
— John D. Rockefeller
Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you're doing in business.
— John D. Rockefeller
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
— John D. Rockefeller
Own nothing, control everything.
— John D. Rockefeller
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
You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
— John D. Rockefeller
The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
— 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.
— John D. Rockefeller
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
— John D. Rockefeller
Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
— John D. Rockefeller
There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliancedo not sacrifice that to anything else. — John D. Rockefeller
The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
— John D. Rockefeller
Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
— John D. Rockefeller
The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
— John D. Rockefeller
Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
— John D. Rockefeller
I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
— John D. Rockefeller
After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
— John D. Rockefeller
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.
— John D. Rockefeller
A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
— John D. Rockefeller
Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
— John D. Rockefeller
It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
— John D. Rockefeller
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
— John D. Rockefeller
God gave me my money.
— John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
— Ralph Nader
I'm giving my whole life to breaking the butterfly of a John Rockefeller upon the wheel of my ponderous articles,
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
— John D. Rockefeller
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
— John D. Rockefeller
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
— John D. Rockefeller
Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
— John D. Rockefeller
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
— John D. Rockefeller
Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
— John D. Rockefeller
Nobody does anything if he can get anybody else to do it
— John D. Rockefeller
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.
— John D. Rockefeller
Save when you can and not when you have to.
— John D. Rockefeller
The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
— John D. Rockefeller Jr.
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.
— John D. Rockefeller
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
— John D. Rockefeller
Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
— John D. Rockefeller
I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
— John D. Rockefeller
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.
— John D. Rockefeller
Competition is a sin.
— John D. Rockefeller
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
— John D. Rockefeller
John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.
— H.W. Brands
Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
— John D. Rockefeller
I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
— John D. Rockefeller
Musk's vision, and, of late, execution seem to combine the best of Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller. With
— Ashlee Vance
The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
— John D. Rockefeller
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.
— John D. Rockefeller
The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
— John D. Rockefeller
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.
— John D. Rockefeller
When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
— John D. Rockefeller
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship
— John D. Rockefeller
I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
— John D. Rockefeller
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
— John D. Rockefeller
Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
— John D. Rockefeller
Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
— John D. Rockefeller
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.
— John D. Rockefeller
How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
— John D. Rockefeller
Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
— John D. Rockefeller
When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
— John D. Rockefeller
The poorest man I know is the man who has nothing but money.
— John D. Rockefeller
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
— John D. Rockefeller