John D. Rockefeller Quotes

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The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.

John D. Rockefeller
The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.

John D. Rockefeller
This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

John D. Rockefeller
We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

John D. Rockefeller
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.

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

John D. Rockefeller
Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

John D. Rockefeller
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.

John D. Rockefeller
I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.

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

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

John D. Rockefeller
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.

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

John D. Rockefeller
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.

John D. Rockefeller