John D. Rockefeller

The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.

John D. Rockefeller

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

John D. Rockefeller

There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance – do not sacrifice that to anything else.

John D. Rockefeller

To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!

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

When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.

John D. Rockefeller

You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.

John D. Rockefeller

I have nothing else to say other than I wasn’t corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn’t greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.

John D. Rockefeller

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

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