Top 33 Quotes by John D. Rockefeller

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Competition is a sin.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

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.