Quotes About Success

Only in such passages do we see that Hamilton, for all his phenomenal success in the Continental Army, still felt unlucky and unlovely, still cursed by his past.

They knew they would either have to quit the business or swallow their pride and make peace with the oil giant.

He was a much less clever monopolist than his mentor.

Shaped by a childhood of uncertainty, he aspired to be self-sufficient in business

Another explanation is that while he was persistent, he was also extremely slow; as at school, some people thought him a rather dim-witted dolt who would never rise in the world, and he had to prove himself to naysayers.

Perhaps if Rockefeller had made himself available at the beginning of his career as he now did at the end, he might not have been sitting in the witness stand.

when John Rockefeller dies," Archbold said, "the world is going to be surprised to learn what a very great man he has been in every way.

Rockefeller also derived a glandular pleasure from work and never found it cheerless drudgery.

Beyond the size of his stake, Rockefeller also possessed an unlikely charisma

Gates himself invested in several of the companies he managed for Rockefeller, and in 1902 he cashed in a tidy $500,000 profit.

Mr. Rockefeller may have made himself the richest man in the world, but he has paid.

but Rockefeller started at the top, believing that if he could crack his strongest competitor first, it would have a tremendous psychological impact.

Rockefeller knew that he was overpaying but couldn't resist a deal that would certify his position as the world's largest oil refiner at age thirty-one.

As at Standard Oil, Rockefeller insisted upon keeping a cash balance that never dipped below $10 million.

The struggle for the survival of the fittest, in the sea and on the land the world over, as well as the law of supply and demand, were observed in all the ages past until the Standard Oil Company preached the doctrines of cooperation, and it did cooperate so successfully and so fairly that its most bitter opponents were won over to its views and made to realize that rational, sane, modern, progressive administration was necessary to success.103

Rockefeller succeeded because he believed in the long-term prospects of the business and never treated it as a mirage that would soon fade.

It proved to be the luckiest stroke of his career.

Thanks to this staggering appreciation, Rockefeller's net worth reached a lifetime peak of $900 million in 1913—more than $13 billion in 1996 dollars.

John D. Rockefeller had an unfailing knack for knowing who would help or hinder him in his career, an instinct only sharpened by time.

He made them all wealthy beyond their dreams.

The soaring fortunes of the Standard companies made it seem as if the cagey Rockefeller had outwitted the country again.

Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money, and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.

Rockefeller now left Andrew Carnegie far behind and probably had at least twice as much money as Carnegie did.

I never felt the need of scientific knowledge, have never felt it. A young man who wants to succeed in business does not require chemistry or physics. He can always hire scientists.