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…John D. Rockefeller
“I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”
“I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”
— JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER
Industrialist, co-founder of Standard Oil · 1839 – 1937
Co-founder of Standard Oil, John D. Rockefeller became America's first billionaire and is often regarded as the richest American of all time. In later life he turned to philanthropy, helping to found the University of Chicago and the Rockefeller Foundation.
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