35 Powerful John D. Rockefeller Quotes About Change

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

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

Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.

I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.

Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.

There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

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

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.

The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.

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

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 every day.

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.

I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.

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.

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.

Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.

The only question with wealth is what do you do with it?

How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.

Own nothing, control everything.

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.

The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest.

Competition is a sin.

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

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.

I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.

Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were giving him or her an opportunity to participate in a high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his or hers as is the duty of asking yours.