“The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day’s task successfully and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.” - John D. Rockefeller
A great deal has been written over the years about John D. Rockefeller, both positive and negative. Whatever your personal opinion of the man, you have to admit that he knew how to make money. He is widely regarded to have been the richest person in American history, in terms of percent of American GDP, even more so than Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Bill Gates. His personal fortune was worth 1.4% of the total U.S. economy at the time of his death in 1937. This is even after his historic giving to philanthropic organizations.
