John D. Rockefeller Inspirational Quotations

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

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

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.

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

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

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 always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

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.

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

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