John D. Rockefeller Quotes

John D. Rockefeller is said to have been the richest person in history, even if he lived today. He left us with some wise quotes, check them out:

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.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.

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.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

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

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

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.

These are some very wise quotes from the richest man in history.