John D. Rockefeller

John D. Rockefeller was an American businessman and philanthropist.

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- John D. Rockefeller

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

- John D. Rockefeller

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

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

- 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