John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller Sr.was an American industrialist and philanthropist. He was a co-founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry, and along with other key contemporary industrialists such as Andrew Carnegie, defined the structure of modern philanthropy. In 1870, he founded Standard Oil Company and actively ran it until he officially retired in 1897...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth8 July 1839
CountryUnited States of America
John D. Rockefeller quotes about
Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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.
A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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.
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.
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he's got to keep running or bust!