Quotes by John D. Rockefeller

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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