John D. Rockefeller Quotes

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

John D. Rockefeller

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• You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Work
  • Success
  • Know

• It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Success
  • Years
  • Overnight

• No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Success
  • Effort
  • Perseverance

• I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • World
  • Done
  • Success

• Focus on being balanced - success is balance.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Success
  • Focus
  • Balance

• Democrats hate success.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Success
  • Hate
  • Democrats

• I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Different
  • Tired
  • Manipulation

• Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

  

  Mae West
  • Important
  • Success
  • Personality

• I don't want to be involved with an actor because I know how they are. I've had problems in the past being with guys who haven't had any success or haven't made as much money, and it's very uncomfortable.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Money
  • Success
  • Past

• Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Success
  • Feeling
  • Shame

• The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Want
  • Success
  • Me

• But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • People
  • Star
  • Travel

• Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Success
  • Happiness
  • Caring

• A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • She
  • Pretty

• Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Up
  • High
  • Success

• More than 13,000 Malaysians travel to the U.K. to study in British universities every year.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Study
  • Travel
  • Year

• Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Culture

• In America, if you succeed, you don't have to apologize. In Italy, success is envied, and envy is the worst, worst, worst thing in the world. It's easy for me to say because I have had more than many others, but at the end of the day, I have never envied anyone. I wish to no one that they waste their time envying anyone else.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Time
  • World
  • America

• Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • God
  • Art
  • Science

• We have substantially improved our position in Japan which now represents a major part of our business.

  

  David Milne
  • Business

• To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction. You need a commitment to something bigger and more important than yourself. You need to feel that your life stands for something, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to your world.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• People view the police not as allies, but as antagonists, and think of them not with respect or gratitude, but with suspicion and distrust.

  

  James Comey
  • People
  • Respect
  • Police

• For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.

  

  Lynda Barry
  • Color

• If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

  

  John D. Rockefeller
  • Success
  • Travel