Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
John D. Rockefeller
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
John D. Rockefeller
Age: 97 †
Born: 1839
Born: July 8
Died: 1937
Died: May 23
Accountant
Banker
Business Person
Entrepreneur
Richford
New York
John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
Sr.
john d. rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
Well
Holiday
Play
Everyday
Work
Early
Long
Taught
Way
Worry
Good
Full
Life
Happy
Wells
Dropped
More quotes by John D. Rockefeller
I have nothing else to say other than I wasn't corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn't greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.
John D. Rockefeller
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
John D. Rockefeller
The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
John D. Rockefeller
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.
John D. Rockefeller
That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity?I care about others as well.
John D. Rockefeller
When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
John D. Rockefeller
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D. Rockefeller
Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
John D. Rockefeller
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!
John D. Rockefeller
I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
John D. Rockefeller
Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
John D. Rockefeller
I wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.
John D. Rockefeller
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
John D. Rockefeller
If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.
John D. Rockefeller
God gave me my money.
John D. Rockefeller
The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
John D. Rockefeller
I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
John D. Rockefeller
Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
John D. Rockefeller
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
John D. Rockefeller
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller
