John D. Rockefeller

I’m glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [Standard Oil Company]. I’m glad many people read my book and found out the truth.

John D. Rockefeller

If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.

John D. Rockefeller

That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity?I care about others as well.

John D. Rockefeller

The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working-out of a law of nature and a law of God.

John D. Rockefeller

The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.

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

We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.

John D. Rockefeller

Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because I got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.

John D. Rockefeller

When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.

John D. Rockefeller