John D. Rockefeller Quotes

I have always indulged the hope that I should be able to establish efficiency in giving, so that wealth may be of greater use to the present and future generations.

There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance—do not sacrifice that to anything else.

Wealth isn't a distinction. If I have no other achievement to my credit than the accumulation of wealth, then I have made a poor success of my life.

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great

I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee, and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

I believe the power to make money is a gift of God … to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.

I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.

God gave me my money.