John D. 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.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

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.

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

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.

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

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

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

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

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.

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