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
The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.
I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
The poorest man I know is the man who has nothing but money.
I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?
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.
God gave me my money.
Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
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.
Own nothing, control everything.
There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else.
Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed