Quotes from John D. Rockefeller

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed" ~ John D. Rockefeller

It is one thing to stand on the comfortable ground of placid inaction and put forth words of cynical wisdom, and another to plunge into the work itself and through strenuous experience earn the right to express strong conclusions.

Nobody does anything if he can get anybody else to do it

It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.

The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.

Don't waste effort on a thing that ends in a petty triumph unless you are happy with a life of petty success

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

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

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

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

A man has no right to occupy another man's time unnecessarily

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.

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

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.

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

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

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

I'm glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I'm glad many people read my book and found out the truth.

Competition is a sin.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin 'em and I just beat 'em every time I can. I want to make 'em sharp.

I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn't you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.

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

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