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 American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working-out of a law of nature and a law of God.
There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit - a reputation and character.
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.
If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.