John D. Rockefeller

""The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.""

- John D. Rockefeller

"The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well."

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- John D. Rockefeller

"The major fortunes in America have been made in land."

- John D. Rockefeller

"And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better."

- John D. Rockefeller

""Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy objective, any more than as though you were giving him an opportunity to participate in high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his as the duty of asking yours. Whether or not he should give to that particular enterprise, and if so, how much, it is for him alone to decide.""

- John D. Rockefeller

"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."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people."

- John D. Rockefeller

"I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week."

- John D. Rockefeller

"I believe it is every man’s religious duty to get all he can honestly and to give all he can."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy objective, any more than as though you were giving him an opportunity to participate in high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his as the duty of asking yours. Whether or not he should give to that particular enterprise, and if so, how much, it is for him alone to decide."

- John D. Rockefeller

"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."

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- John D. Rockefeller

"Trade the good for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great"

- John D. Rockefeller

"It requires a better type of mind to seek out and to support or to create the new than to follow the worn paths of accepted success."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity."

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- John D. Rockefeller

""Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.""

- John D. Rockefeller

""Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.""

- 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."

- John D. Rockefeller