John D. Rockefeller

“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.”

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

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

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

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”

“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.”

“I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.”

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

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

“Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.”

“Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.”

“A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.”

“Good management consists in 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.”

“I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.”

“I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.”

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