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
A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
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.
It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he's got to keep running or bust!
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.
My mother was given to a typical question: "We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?" But my wife's typical question was "We have always done this. Why don't we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?"
I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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.
Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you're doing in business.