Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
- John D. Rockefeller Quote

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

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
- John D. Rockefeller Quote

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
- John D. Rockefeller Quote

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
- John D. Rockefeller Quote

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
- John D. Rockefeller Quote

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 Quote

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
- John D. Rockefeller Quote

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
- John D. Rockefeller Quote

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 Quote

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
- John D. Rockefeller Quote

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 Quote

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

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
- John D. Rockefeller Quote

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
- John D. Rockefeller Quote

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
- John D. Rockefeller Quote

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
- John D. Rockefeller Quote

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
- John D. Rockefeller Quote