John Davison Rockefeller Quotes

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

  John Davison Rockefeller

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• The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest… The American Beauty rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it.

  John Davison Rockefeller

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

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

  John Davison Rockefeller

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• We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

  John Davison Rockefeller

• 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.

  John Davison Rockefeller

• There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

  John Davison Rockefeller

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

  John Davison Rockefeller

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

  John Davison Rockefeller

• The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.

  John Davison Rockefeller

• 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.

  John Davison Rockefeller

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

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

  John Davison Rockefeller

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

  John Davison Rockefeller

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

  John Davison 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 Davison Rockefeller

• 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.

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

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• I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

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• 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.

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John Davison Rockefeller (31)

Birth:	8th July, 1839
Death:	23rd May, 1937
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Industrialist, Philanthropist

About

John Davison Rockefeller Sr. was born in Richford, New York, USA. He was an American industrialist and philanthropist, founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. He studied at Central High School, Cleveland, Ohio. He established his first enterprise, a commission business dealing in hay, grain, meats, and other goods. Sensing the commercial potential of the expanding oil production in western Pennsylvania in the early 1860s, he built his first oil refinery, near Cleveland in 1863. Within two years it was the largest refinery in the area, and thereafter Rockefeller devoted himself exclusively to the oil business. In 1870 Rockefeller and a few associates, a group that included American financier Henry M. Flagler, incorporated the Standard Oil Company. He was also the founder of both the University of Chicago and Rockefeller University and funded the establishment of Central Philippine University in the Philippines. He married Laura Celestia Spelman in 1864. They had four daughters and one son together.

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