John D. Rockefeller Business Quotations

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound and there is nothing in the business situation to warrant the destruction of values that has taken place on the exchanges during the past week, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks. We are continuing and will continue our purchases in substantial amounts at levels which we believe represent sound investment values.

We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy.

The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.

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