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
I believe the power to make money is a gift from God...to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.
It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
Probably the greatest single obstacle to the progress and happiness of the American people lies in the willingness of so many men to invest their time and money in multiplying competitive industries instead of opening up new fields, and putting their money into lines of industry and development that are needed.
Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
Many of the deficiencies of our economic system could be alleviated if ways were found to broaden the ownership of the means of production... This has happened in some companies through ESOPs. Successful approaches of this sort would pay dividends in terms of employee commitment and morale. And they would not deprive anyone of his present holdings since they are based on future growth.
Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.
I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
The poorest man I know is the man who has nothing but money.
I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?