The best Quotes by John D. Rockefeller

The best Quotes by John D. Rockefeller

John Davison Rockefeller Sr. (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American business magnate and philanthropist. He has been widely considered the wealthiest American of all time and the richest person in modern history.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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.

Quotes about John D. Rockefeller

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

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My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.
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I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.
Why can't you compare Washington State and Florida?
Because it'd be like comparing apples and oranges.
I'm honored that so many Floridians are supporting my efforts to rekindle the American Dream.
Ron DeSantis - November 2018
"How you gonna get a gun?"
"This is Florida. The God damn state is shaped like a gun!"
Florida is America's bas*ment: it's wet, it's filled with mold, strange insects, alligators.
Robert California in The Office - Season 8 Episode 11
Wrong? We're in Florida. The state bird is a chicken finger.
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Saudi Arabia... the country with bans on pork, alcohol and p*rn - or, as it's known in America: a Florida Breakfast.
John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)
Great companies are built on great products.
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In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.
Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook CEO)
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I've actually not read any books on time management.
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Stay hungry, stay foolish.
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If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates - 1999
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.
The secret behind success isn't as much of a secret as people think. It's pretty simple. It's working as hard as you can to accomplish what you want.
The Jedi are trained to let go. They're trained from birth. They're not supposed to form attachments. They can love people – in fact, they should love everybody. They should love their enemies; they should love the Sith. But they can't form attachments. So what all these movies are about is: greed. Greed is a source of pain and suffering for everybody.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
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Wealth is a nightmare. With each coveted thing we buy, we lose a thing we dream about.
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If one does not often make mistakes, then one has not challenged oneself enough.
It's not technology that makes history, but the people who invented it.
I think we can all agree Elon isn't serious and it's time to move on. I offered a real date. Dana White offered to make this a legit competition for charity. Elon won't confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead. If Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official event, he knows how to reach me. Otherwise, time to move on. I'm going to focus on competing with people who take the sport seriously.
Mark Zuckerberg - August 2023
Virtual reality was once the dream of science fiction. But the internet was also once a dream, and so were computers and smartphones. The future is coming.
I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.
We're very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world's best products and enriching people's lives.
Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.
In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'
You'll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.
The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.
Facebook is manipulating the public almost everywhere on Earth. That is why they won't open source their algorithm.
Elon Musk - August 2023
ChatGPT is scary good. We are not far from dangerously strong AI.
Elon Musk - December 2022
We really do believe that we can improve the world, one song at a time.
Daniel Ek (Spotify CEO)
I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
Daniel Ek (Spotify CEO)
Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.
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If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.
Reed Hastings (Netflix CEO)
Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.
The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

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