John D. Rockefeller

Quotes

• “We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and i...”
• “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 ...”
• “The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I pay more for that ability than f...”
• “And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought ...”
• “I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of m...”
• “Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”
• “Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”
• “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”
• “Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.”
• “I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.”
• “After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.”
• “The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.”
• “It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.”
• “A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily”
• “The only question with wealth is what you do with it.”
• “I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.”