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 would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily
When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
I think it is a man's duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.
How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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.
I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life's work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
Probably the greatest single obstacle to the progress and happiness of the American people lies in the willingness of so many men to invest their time and money in multiplying competitive industries instead of opening up new fields, and putting their money into lines of industry and development that are needed.
The poorest man I know is the man who has nothing but money.
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.
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.