If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- John D. Rockefeller

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

- John D. Rockefeller

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.

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- John D. Rockefeller

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

- 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 management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- 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

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

- John D. Rockefeller

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

- John D. Rockefeller

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- John D. Rockefeller

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- John D. Rockefeller