John D. Rockefeller

"I would rather work one hour a day with my mind than eight hours with my hands."

"Keeping sound health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our minds as sharp as we would wish."

"The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets."

"Competition is the life blood of business."

"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent."

"Grow as if you plan to live forever, act as if you could die tomorrow."

"Train your child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."

"Life is a grind, always has been, always will be."

"The greatest happiness in the world is the opportunity to work toward a goal you believe in."

"A person must not apologize to themselves for the way they are."

"The important thing is the foundation which you build upon."

"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind."

"Talent without patience will produce little."

"The idea that every individual is free to work and achieve their goals is the foundation of freedom."

"The secret of business is knowing something that nobody else knows."

"The person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

"Honesty is the cornerstone of all success."

"A friendship founded on business is better than business founded on friendship."

"It is the duty of every citizen to be intelligent."

"The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee."

"All the resources we need are in the mind."

"Giving should be entered into in just the same careful way as investing."

"I think the first duty of life is to serve others."

"The most real things in the world are things that are not seen."

"Success comes to the person who makes a definite decision."

"The way to become rich is to put all of your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket."

"I see no advantage in these new mechanical inventions."

"The basis of good business is a real desire to serve."

"He that has the control of the purse has the control of the country."

"I have no sorrow in leaving this world because I have been so happy in it."