The Rockefeller family is an American industrial, political, and banking family that owns one of the world's largest fortunes.
“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance.”
“Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.”
“Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity.”
“I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.”
“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great”
“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship”
“The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well.”
“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.”
“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.”
“The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.”
“If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.”
“The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.”
“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”
“The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?”
“Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”
“I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.”
“The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.”
“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.”
“We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.”
“It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.”
“God gave me my money.”
“I believe the power to make money is a gift of God … to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.”
“I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.”
“I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master. 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. I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living and that economy is a prime requisite of a sound financial structure, whether in government, business or personal affairs. I believe that truth and justice are fundamental to an enduring social order. I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man's word should be as good as his bond, that character—not wealth or power or position—is of supreme worth. I believe that the rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind and that only in the purifying fire of sacrifice is the dross of selfishness consumed and the greatness of the human soul set free. I believe in an all-wise and all-loving God, named by whatever name, and that the individual's highest fulfillment, greatest happiness and widest usefulness are to be found in living in harmony with His will. I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world; that it alone can overcome hate; that right can and will triumph over might.”
