Quotes About Success

The Clarks were the first of many business partners to underrate the audacity of the quietly calculating Rockefeller, who bided his time as he figured out how to get rid of them.

61 Pierpont's fortune didn't approach those of the great industrialists—Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford, or Harriman—and he didn't quite edge out Jay Gould.

Rockefeller generally conformed to the requisite style, but his family constantly had to remind him to buy a new suit when his current one got too shiny.

To the young American Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the paths to fortune are innumerable and all open;

Rockefeller never passed up a chance to exploit a legitimate advantage against his beleaguered rivals.

No longer at the mercy of unpredictable economic forces, he thrived even in recessions.

Rockefeller had positioned himself exactly where he wished to be—poised to profit from either surplus or scarcity and all but immune to the vagaries of the marketplace.

Potts aspired to be Rockefeller's equal.

but as John D. Rockefeller set about building his fortune, the absence of clear-cut rules probably aided, at first, the creative vigor of the new industrial economy.

He occupies a position in our business circles second to but few.

He was a slow learner but patient and persistent and, like J. P. Morgan and Jay Gould, exhibited a terrific head for math.

His life was a case study in the profitable use of time.

But you must keep this contract secret even from your wife. When you begin to make more money, don't let anybody know it. Don't put on any more style.

As a team, they were unbeatable and far more than the sum of their parts.

Hamilton did not know it, but he just wrote himself out of poverty.

Before Rockefeller's hair fell out, people noted the contrast between him and his often sickly wife.

Johnson tried to persuade Rockefeller that these skills would serve him well in golf.

It is, in my opinion, the opportunity of a lifetime, one of those opportunities, the seizing or failing to seize, which marks the difference between success and failure in life."84

and awaited instructions.

he had positively no gift, except that of making money.

winning at any cost.

he "taught men how to use money and how not to be its slave.

And he had inherited the chief American bank in London.

All the fortune that I have made has not served to compensate for the anxiety of that period.