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
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
The common denominator for success is work.
The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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.
Save when you can and not when you have to.
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
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.
The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.