Frases de John Davison Rockefeller

John Davison Rockefeller fue un empresario, inversionista, industrial y filántropo estadounidense, que trabajó en el mundo de la industria petrolera, llegando al punto de monopolizarla. Fue el fundador y presidente de la Standard Oil, una gigantesca compañía que llegó a controlar la extracción, refino, transporte y distribución de más del 90 % del petróleo de Estados Unidos y sostuvo monopolios enteros en inversiones en múltiples países extranjeros. Durante un período de más de cuarenta años, Rockefeller consolidó a la Standard Oil como la compañía petrolera más grande del mundo, revolucionando la industria en todos sus niveles y demostrando una extraordinaria e implacable capacidad competitiva. Por otro lado, Rockefeller fue uno de los más notorios filántropos de su época, dedicando gran parte de su fortuna y recursos a numerosas donaciones, fundaciones y programas, siendo el fundador de la Universidad de Chicago, una de las universidades más prestigiosas del mundo, cuna de 87 Premios Nobel, así como también de la Universidad Rockefeller en Nueva York, además de impulsar numerosas áreas de la educación, la ciencia y la medicina.

Sus logros empresariales son tan magníficos como controvertidos, pues mediante astucia, ingenio, dedicación y pocos escrúpulos, ascendió en el mundo empresarial, levantó un extenso imperio que se extendió hasta tal punto que ninguna otra empresa en la historia ha logrado alcanzar hasta hoy en día. Señalado por sus prácticas monopolistas, fue denunciado por periodistas e investigadores y a la larga el gobierno de los Estados Unidos tuvo que enfrentarse a él, logrando llevarlo ante los tribunales y consiguiendo tras años enteros de litigios que se dictara la separación de la gigantesca petrolera de Rockefeller, separación que tardó mucho tiempo en materializarse después de dictada.

Rockefeller es hasta ahora el único caso que se haya visto de un hombre que llegó a construir un monopolio puro, que le costó al mismo gobierno disolver y que de hecho marcó en profundidad el desarrollo de la industria petrolera a nivel mundial.

Está considerado como el hombre más acaudalado de la Historia Mundial y es el fundador de la mítica familia de millonarios que aún persiste hoy en día, con su mismo apellido y poderío así como la extensión de su riqueza fueron extremas no solo sobre Estados Unidos sino sobre otros lugares, como Europa y Latinoamérica, de hecho, su familia continuó controlando el 90 % de la industria petrolífera en esta última durante más de seis décadas posteriores a su fallecimiento.

✵ 8. julio 1839 – 23. mayo 1937   •   Otros nombres Джон Дэвисон Рокфеллер
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Frases célebres de John Davison Rockefeller

“Creo que el ahorro es esencial para una buena vida.”

Sin fuentes
Atribuidas

“No conozco nada más despreciable y patético que un hombre que dedica todas las horas del día a hacer dinero por el amor al dinero.”

Atribuidas
Fuente: Citado en: John D. Rockefeller, Money and Class in America (1988) de Lewis H. Lapham, nota en el capítulo 8.

“«No quiero una nación de pensadores, quiero una nación de trabajadores.”

Atribuidas
Fuente: Atribuida por Jim Marrs en la película de William Lewis, Una nación bajo asedio.

John Davison Rockefeller Frases y Citas

“Si su único objetivo en la vida es hacerse rico, jamás lo logrará.”

Atribuidas
Fuente: Citada en Complete Speaker's and Toastmaster's Library (1992) editado por Jacob Morton Braude y Glenn Van Ekeren. Prentice Hall (1990),ISBN-10: 0198288255

“Dios me dio mi riqueza.”

Atribuidas
Fuente: Citado en: Abeles Jules (1965): Los miles de millones de Rockefeller.

“Es un error suponer que los hombres de inmensa riqueza son siempre felices.”

Atribuidas
Fuente: Atribuida como una declaración para su clase de Biblia (1 de abril de 1905) en "The Loneliness of John D. Rockefeller", Current Literature (Noviembre de 1906), vol. 41, nº 5.

“«Creo que es mi deber hacer dinero y aún más dinero y usar el dinero que gano por el bien de mi prójimo de acuerdo a los dictados de mi conciencia.”

Atribuidas
Fuente: Atribuida por Robert Heilbroner y Aaron Singer en The Economic Transformation of America. 1600 to Present.. Wadsworth: Belmont (CA), 1999: 162.

“Tengo maneras de hacer dinero de las que no tienes ni idea.”

En disputa
Fuente: Citado por Isaac Hewitt (1879) en un testimonio ante la Asamblea de Nueva York. Rockefeller reprochó la veracidad de esta frase, de acuerdo con David Freeman Hawke (1980) John D..

John Davison Rockefeller: Frases en inglés

“I believe the power to make money is a gift of God … to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.”

Interview with William Hoster, quoted in God's Gold (1932) by John T. Flynn
Contexto: I believe the power to make money is a gift of God … to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.

“I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.”

As quoted in Classic Wisdom for the Professional Life (2010) by Bryan Curtis, p. 75

“I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living and that economy is a prime requisite of a sound financial structure, whether in government, business or personal affairs.

I believe that truth and justice are fundamental to an enduring social order.

I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man's word should be as good as his bond, that character—not wealth or power or position—is of supreme worth.

I believe that the rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind and that only in the purifying fire of sacrifice is the dross of selfishness consumed and the greatness of the human soul set free.

I believe in an all-wise and all-loving God, named by whatever name, and that the individual's highest fulfillment, greatest happiness and widest usefulness are to be found in living in harmony with His will.

I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world; that it alone can overcome hate; that right can and will triumph over might.”

“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance.”

As quoted in How They Succeeded (1901) by Orison Swett Marden
Contexto: I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

“Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.”

As quoted in The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (2007) edited by Ted Goodman, p. 175

“Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity.”

Attributed in The Rockefellers (1976) by Peter Collier and David Horowitz

“I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.”

TIME Magazine (21. May 1928) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,731797,00.html

“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great”

Earliest citation found in Google Books is from 1993 https://books.google.com/books?id=bdTko5oHTd4C&pg=PA25&dq=%22give+up+the+good+to+go+for+the+great%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiH2e_QivXLAhUps4MKHdf0A9wQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=%22give%20up%20the%20good%20to%20go%20for%20the%20great%22&f=false, where it is attributed to country-music singer Kenny Rogers. Not found attributed to Rockefeller until 2006 https://books.google.com/books?id=F7OGT9WTiPQC&pg=PA24&dq=%22give+up+the+good%22+%22go+for+the+great%22+rockefeller&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjw_rb9ivXLAhXrmoMKHbgHBqkQ6wEIHjAA#v=onepage&q=%22give%20up%20the%20good%22%20%22go%20for%20the%20great%22%20rockefeller&f=false.
Disputed
Variante: Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

“The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit — a reputation, character.”

The Men Who Are Making America (1918) by Bertie Charles Forbes

“The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.”

John D. Rockefeller, age 41, in 1880 — Allan Nevins, John D. Rockefeller (New York: Scribner, 1959), I:622.

“If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.”

As quoted in Complete Speaker's and Toastmaster's Library (1992) edited by Jacob Morton Braude and Glenn Van Ekeren

“The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.”

Attributed in The Fourth — And by Far the Most Recent 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1990) by Robert Byrne; attributed elsewhere to Nathan M. Rothschild

“The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?”

Though attributed to John D. Rockefeller, Sr. in I Want to Make Money in the Stock Market : Learn to Begin Investing Without Losing Your Life Savings (2006) by Chris M. Hart, p. 169; this is clearly a statement of his son, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., as quoted in John D. Rockefeller, Jr: A Portrait (1956) by Raymond Blaine Fosdick, p. 189: The only question with wealth is what to do with it. It can be used for evil purposes or it can be an instrumentality for constructive social living.
Misattributed

“Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”

As quoted in The Harper Book of Quotations (1993) by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 71; the earliest published occurrence of such remarks yet located were those of Jim Low in "The Human in Public Relations" a diner address in Proceedings, Seventh Annual Meeting of the Agricultural Research Institute, October 13-14, 1958, Washington, Pt. 3, p. 83
Disputed

“I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.”

Attributed by Jim Marrs in the William Lewis film One Nation Under Siege (2008); no published occurrence of this has been located prior to The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy : How the New World Order, Man-Made Diseases, and Zombie Banks Are Destroying America (2010) by Jim Marrs
Disputed

“I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.”

As quoted by Isaac Hewitt (1879) in testimony to the New York Assembly. Rockefeller doubted that he said this, according to John D. : The Founding Father of the Rockefellers (1980) by David Freeman Hawke; this is reminiscent of the remark attributed to Jesus in John 4:32: "I have meat to eat that ye know not of." (KJV)/"I have food to eat that you know nothing about." (NIV)
Disputed

“Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.”

Remark to a neighbor, quoted by John Lewis in Cosmopolitan (1908)

“It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.”

Attributed as a statement to his Bible class (1 April 1905) in "The Loneliness of John D. Rockefeller", Current Literature (November 1906) vol. 41 no. 5,

“God gave me my money.”

Women's Home Companion (1915), quoted in God's Gold (1932) by John T. Flynn

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