The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son

There were times of the very low, there were times of the very high. But what goes up, must come down.

Starting points do not determine your end point Our destiny is determined by our actions, not by our origins.

Opportunities will always be unequal, but the results prove otherwise.

The privileged but powerless people are a waste, while the educated but unaffected people are a pile of worthless garbage.

Luck depends on planning. Everyone is a designer and architect of his own destiny. I do not live by God-given luck, but I do-so by planning luck.

Do it now. Opportunity comes from opportunity.

if you do not take action, even the world most practical, beautiful, and viable philosophy will not work.

You must stop daydreaming, and to always think of the present and start doing it now. Sentences such as "tomorrow", "next week", and "future" have the same meaning as "can never be done".

Be determined to compete. I do not go into war, but I destroy competitors. Even if we lose, the only thing we should do is to lose gloriously.

Mortgage for the Future. Borrowing money is to create good luck.

The most horrifying thing is Spiritual Bankruptcy. Failure is a good thing as long as it does not become a habit.

Only giving up will result in failure. There is nothing in the world that can replace perseverance. Unless you give up, you will not be beaten.

Too many people overestimate what they lack, but underestimate what they have. (Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.)

Today, the United States cherish a peculiar feeling of gratitude to commemorate the great and rare soul - the former president, Mr. Abraham Lincoln, who is worthy of God and mankind. I believe Lincoln deserves it. In my real memory, no one is greater than Lincoln. He has woven a successful and moving history of the United States. With his indomitable spirit, courage, and generosity, he liberated four million of the humblest black slaves and crushed 27 million locks that have been placed on the soul of people of colour. This put an end to the sinful history of depraved, twisted, and narrow souls due to racial hatred. He avoided the disaster of the country's destruction and combined all different languages, religions, skin colours, and races into a brand-new country.

Hell is full of good people. Arrogance usually leads to downfall. I do not like money, what I like is making money.

Donating money is a wrong kind of help. It will make a person lose the motivation to be thrifty and diligent, and become lazy, unpredictable, and unaccountable. More importantly, when you give alms to a person, you deny his dignity, and if you deny his dignity, you take away his destiny, which is extremely immoral in my opinion. As a rich man, I have the responsibility to be a messenger for the benefit of mankind, but I cannot be the initiator of making lazy people.

Give a pig a good compliment, and it can climb up the tree.

Every opportunity that we don't understand will become a turning point in our lives.

If you are not a winner, you are defying yourself.

Diligence brings Nobility.

Do not make excuses. Excuses are the source of failure. The more successful a person is, the less he will make excuses. Ninety-nine percent of failures are because people are used to making excuses.

Occasionally, I have seen someone stand up and say: "I succeeded by my own efforts." So far, I have not seen any man or woman, dare to stand up and say: "I am the one who made myself fail." The losers have a set of excuses for themselves.

Why do so many talented individual fail? Here is the reason. If an extremely smart person is always using their amazing intellect to prove why things cannot succeed, instead of guiding their minds to find various ways to succeed, the fate of failure will find them.

The seeds of success is in your hands I am my biggest capital. My only belief is to believe in myself!

Your diamond is not between the distant mountains and the sea, if you are determined to dig, the diamond is in your backyard.

A person without ambition will not accomplish great things.

Wealth is proportional to goals. If you have big ambitions and big goals, your mountain of wealth will rise to the sky. If you just want to pass by, then you will end up in the rat race, or even nothing, even if the wealth is close to you, you will only get a little bit of it.

Take risks to make use of opportunities The higher the risk, the greater the return. The more things you have, the greater your power.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

A life motto of a gambler: Only by curiosity can you discover opportunities, and by taking risks can you make use of them.

Good gamblers will become good businessmen.

There must be a spirit of cooperation. Treat others the way you wish to be treated. A friendship built on business is far better than a business built on friendship.

Success is not measured by a person's height, weight, education, or family background, but by the size of his thoughts. The size of our thoughts determines the size of our achievements.

Have every penny brings you benefits. Make every penny's worth.

Do not take the first step without thinking about the last step.

Patience is the strategy. Impulse is always our worst enemy. Only when you can endure what people cannot, can you then do what people cannot do.

The God of Luck favours the Brave.

Attitude helps create luck, and luck is in your choice. If you do it right 51% of the time, then you will become a hero.

The best way to find the best idea is to have lots of ideas.

He is a traditional thinker, and his mind is numb. His reason is: This has been practiced for a hundred years, so it must be a good way. It must be kept as it is, so why risk it. Change? In fact, it can often be achieved only through thinking about the reasons diligently. "Ordinary people" always hate progress.

Do not let the villain hold you back. A wise man will never sit down and mourn over fate. Those who say you cannot do it are those who cannot succeed.

If you are unable to actively establish your own goals, you will passively or unconsciously choose other goals. As a result, you may lose control of the overall situation. At the same time, you will be subjected to people or events that might distract you or disturb you.

The road to hell is paved with kindness.

Avoid Blaming and giving excuses. Blaming is the number one enemy in destroying a leadership.

Do what you like to do, and leave other things to the people who like to do it.

The most perfect person is the one who thoroughly devotes himself to the activity he is best at.

The best way to find the perfect idea, is to have many ideas.

Wealth is a form of responsibility The greater the wealth, means the greater the responsibility.

There is a holy saying in the Gospel of Matthew: "You are the salt of the world."

A person is great not because he has a certain official title. The reason why he is great is that he used a few tools to create a greater cause and accomplish his life goal as an unknown civilian.