John D. Rockefeller Quotes

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.

One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.

I've told myself I have a chance to make history, and that's my focus.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.

I just want to complete my legacy.

The future is not a gift; it’s an achievement.

You either make money, or you make history.

I want to make history.

The more I talk to people who are at a place I'd like to be at, whether its music or writing, or being a doctor or entrepreneur, sometimes you get lucky, and right away something happens. But for most people, the common denominator of success is just working really hard.

Winning isn't everything. It's the money you make doing it that's everything.

Dreamers dream dreams and rich people create plans and build bridges to their dreams.

I never thought about becoming wealthy. It never crossed my mind. What really motivated me was to try to accomplish something.

Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.

Do you want to be rich or not? Let's get focused on that, buddy

What's keeping you from being rich? In most cases it's simply a lack of belief. In order to become rich, you must believe you can do it, and you must take the actions necessary to achieve your goal.

Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.

I want to win. I don't care about the money.

I intend to be, the richest man in the world.

People who don't make goals end up working for those who do.

I am here for the goal, and the goal is to try to do it again.