John D. Rockefeller

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

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

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.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

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.

Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

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

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.

God gave me my money. 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. 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.

The major fortunes in America have been made in land.

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.

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?

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.