John D. Rockefeller

“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.”

“I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.”

“The only question with wealth is what you do with it.”

“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

“Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.”

“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”

“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.”

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

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

“Good leadership consists of 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...”

“Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.”

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