John Davison Rockefeller quotes and words of wisdom

"I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure."
Found in the topic Pleasure.

"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."
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"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."
Found in the topic Success.

"The world position which our country holds today is due to the wide vision of the statesmen who founded these United States and to the daring and indomitable persistence of the great industrial leaders, together with the myriads of men who with faith in their leadership have cooperated to rear the marvelous industrial structure of which our country is justly so proud."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"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."
Found in the topic Work.

Interesting Quotes

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.Woody Allen - US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.T. E. Lawrence