John Davison Rockefeller Quotes

John Davison Rockefeller (31)

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

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

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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.

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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.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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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• I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

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