Many of the deficiencies of our economic system could be alleviated if ways were found to broaden the ownership of the means of production... This has happened in some companies through ESOPs. Successful approaches of this sort would pay dividends… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it. — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Probably the greatest single obstacle to the progress and happiness of the American people lies in the willingness of so many men to invest… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything. — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well.” — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession. — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else. — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ. — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
