„Tajemství úspěchu je dělat obvyklé věci neobvykle dobře.“
Zdroj: [Respekt, 2010, 25, 5]
Datum narození: 8. červenec 1839
Datum úmrtí: 23. květen 1937
Další jména: Джон Дэвисон Рокфеллер
John Davison Rockefeller byl americký průmyslník.
Zdroj: [Respekt, 2010, 25, 5]
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
As quoted in Classic Wisdom for the Professional Life (2010) by Bryan Curtis, p. 75
As quoted in How They Succeeded (1901) by Orison Swett Marden
Kontext: 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.
Interview with William Hoster, quoted in God's Gold (1932) by John T. Flynn
Kontext: 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.
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
Varianta: Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
The Men Who Are Making America (1918) by Bertie Charles Forbes
Attributed in How to Win Friends and Influence People (1937) by Dale Carnegie
Women's Home Companion (1915), quoted in God's Gold (1932) by John T. Flynn
Remark to a neighbor, quoted by John Lewis in Cosmopolitan (1908)
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
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