Quotes

“The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.” John Rockefeller

“Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.” John Rockefeller

“I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.” John Rockefeller

“We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.” John Rockefeller

“The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.” John Rockefeller

“I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.” John Rockefeller

“This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.” John Rockefeller

“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” John Rockefeller

“Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.” John Rockefeller

“I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.” John Rockefeller

“The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.” John Rockefeller

“Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.” John Rockefeller

“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.” John Rockefeller

“I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.” John Rockefeller

“The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?” John Rockefeller

“After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.” John Rockefeller

“Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.” John Rockefeller

“A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“The only journey is the one within.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.” Rainer Maria Rilke