John D. Rockefeller Quotes

There is not a man in power at our Bethlehem steel works today who did not begin at the bottom and work his way up.

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.

I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.

In most careers, you find something you do well, and you tie an increasingly larger bow on the package.

I want my career to grow gradually. There's still so much for me to learn. I'm just trying to take these opportunities to get better at what I'm doing.

If you work hard and you're good, you can build something for yourself.

I always describe my career as something where nothing ever popped overnight.

Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.

It was hard to know if anything, any one particular thing, increased my career or not.

I've had a good career, some good experiences.

I'm working hard since the beginning of my career.

If you get better educated, you might yourself higher up the ladder, but the ladder will still be there.

Careers are not all up, up, up; do good work, continue to grow as an artist, and opportunity finds you. I have no sour grapes.

There's some days you start to think, 'When is my chance going to come?' As a professional, you always have that at the back of your mind.

I want to go higher in my career. This is not my best. My best is yet to come.

'Workaholics' seems like it's doing wonders for my career.

Stop overanalyzing how you 'feel' about your job and focus on being great at it. That will lead to bigger and better opportunities.

I want to work as hard as I can and continue to make a career for myself.

If you want to promote me, promote me.

There's always room for growth. I feel like I'll never get to the point where I'm 100 percent happy with where I am with my career.

My only intention is to just have a little bit more success so that my career is easier and I don't have to work so hard just to get a job.

I never try boost my career of the less fortunate somebody. Because if I gotta call and get press off of it - it ain't coming from my heart.