Top 10 Life-Changing Pieces of Advice From John D. Rockefeller

Big Phil's Nook
6 min readAug 6, 2019
John D. Rockefeller

John Division Rockefeller was an American oil industry business magnate, industrialist, and philanthropist. He is widely considered the wealthiest American of all time, and the richest person in modern history. Kind enough, before John D. Rockefeller died he gave some advice that will be helpful for anyone who desires to be rich and successful in life. In this post, we will be sharing with you 10 of the most inspiring advice from John D. Rockefeller. Our hope is that some of them help you to become rich and successful faster. Number Seven is very important and has personally helped me. So try and read this article till the end.

  1. If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths. Rather than travel the Popular path of acclaimed success.

I have an uncle who loved me so much until I made it known that I wasn’t going to follow his path, nor would I follow most of his advice. He wanted me to be a doctor because being a doctor will give me much money. I protested and denied and the reason for that is very simple. I didn’t want to end up like him. Albert Einstein once said, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results. If you want to succeed in life, you’ve got to do something different from what everyone is doing. You’ve got to strike out a new path. Rather than following…

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Big Phil's Nook
Big Phil's Nook

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A balanced cloud computing expert and founder of Kallimera. I consider myself a world citizen, who gets my inspiration from the people I meet along my journeys.