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
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To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!
I shall use such influence as I have in emphasizing the basic truths common to all denominations, in lowering denominational barriers and in promoting effective cooperation among Christians of whatever creed.
I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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.
A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily
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.
I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy.
The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.