“The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.” John D. Rockefeller
““We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.”” John D. Rockefeller
“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.” 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
“Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.” John D. Rockefeller
“The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit — a reputation, character.” John D. Rockefeller
“I was early taught to work as well as play,My life has been one long, happy holiday;Full of work and full of play —I dropped the worry on the way —And God was good to me every day.” John D. Rockefeller
“I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.” 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
“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” John D. Rockefeller
“Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.” John D. Rockefeller
“The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.” John D. Rockefeller
“Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” John D. Rockefeller
“Competition was natural enough at one time, but do you think you are competing today? Many of you think you are. Against whom? Against Rockefeller? About as I would if I had a wheelbarrow and competed with the Santa Fe from here to Kansas City.” John D. Rockefeller
“If you could get along without King George, you can get along without King John Rockefeller. Political liberty without economic freedom is a myth. Political liberty is rooted in economic freedom. The man who controls and owns the means that sustain my life, owns and controls me.” John D. Rockefeller
“I despise the rule of Rockefeller and Morgan as much as that of King or Kaiser, and am as outraged by Ludlow and Calumet as by Belgium.” John D. Rockefeller
“Of course John D. Rockefeller does not realize the fact, but it is true nevertheless that the Hookworm Commission he is supporting in the South is doing more for the revolutionary awakening in Dixie than anything else.” John D. Rockefeller
“I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. ... I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created; and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous.” Benjamin Franklin
“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.” Benjamin Franklin
“Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.” Benjamin Franklin
“If you would keep your Secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.Up, Sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.” Benjamin Franklin
“The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.” Benjamin Franklin
“But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength, both in numbers and wealth; ... unless, by a neglect of military discipline, we should lose all martial spirit ...; for there is much truth in the Italian saying, Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.” Benjamin Franklin
“The first man put at the helm will be a good one. No body knows what sort may come afterwards. The Executive will be always increasing here, as elsewhere, till it ends in a Monarchy.” Benjamin Franklin
“A lady asked Franklin: "Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?". Franklin replied: "A Republic, if you can keep it.” Benjamin Franklin
“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” Benjamin Franklin
“God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.” Benjamin Franklin
“Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.” Benjamin Franklin
“The Way to ſee by Faith is to ſhut the Eye of Reaſon: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.” Benjamin Franklin
“It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one-tenth Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service.” Benjamin Franklin
“From a Child I was fond of Reading, and all the little Money that came into my Hands was ever laid out in Books.” Benjamin Franklin
“Human Felicity is produc'd not so much by great Pieces of good Fortune that seldom happen, as by little Advantages that occur every Day.” Benjamin Franklin
“I think opinions should be judged of by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.” Benjamin Franklin
“Every Body cries, a Union is absolutely necessary, but when they come to the Manner and Form of the Union, their weak Noddles are perfectly distracted.” Benjamin Franklin