John Davison Rockefeller. John D. Rockefeller (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American entrepreneur, industrialist, he founded the Standard Oil Company and became the world's richest man and first American billionaire. . The best quotations and sayings about business with comments.
With perseverance, anything and everything, whether right or wrong, good or bad, is achievable and can be conquered.
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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.
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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.
Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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.
Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.