“His [Rockefeller's] secret was: Power of foresight. It comes simply from his habit of looking at every side of a question, of weighing the favorable and unfavorable features of a situation and of sifting out the inevitable result through his unfairly good judgment.”— Orison Swett Marden, amazon.comTagged: Success
“The popular idea of multi-millionaire is a man who has taken big risks and has come out lucky. He is a living refutation of his conception. He is careful and cautious by nature, and he had made these traits habitual.”— Orison Swett Marden, amazon.comTagged: Success
“There is nothing impulsive or bombastic about him [Rockefeller]. But his conversation impresses one consistency of about 100% of cold, compact, boiled down common sense.”— Orison Swett Marden, amazon.comTagged: Success
“His rule: have the chief authority in his own hands or have nothing to do with the matter.”— Orison Swett Marden, amazon.comTagged: Success
“Investors–when he [Rockefeller] was 25–offered him $500k if he could find some oil wells–if he could find good ones. He couldn't and returned to Cleveland without spending a dollar and staying out of the drilling end of the market.”— Orison Swett Marden, amazon.comTagged: Success