- “I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.”
- “I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.”
- “I would rather earn 1% off 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.”
- “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.”
- “The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.”
- “A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.”
- “Competition is a sin.”
- “I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.”
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At the age of 86, Rockefeller summed up his own life with this poem:
“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 everyday.”
These words are etched in granite at the base of his skyscraper in NYC.