A Quote by John D. Rockefeller

The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.

John D. Rockefeller

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John D. Rockefeller
American - Businessman
July 8, 1839 - May 23, 1937

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

Joey Adams

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

J. Paul Getty

If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.

J. Paul Getty

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

J. Paul Getty

There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.

Ray Davies

If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I'll work 'till exhausted.

Dave Brubeck

You get up early in the morning and you work all day. That’s the only secret.

Philip Glass

Early in my career, I wasn't good in the strike zone early. I was good in the strike zone late, which is not a good thing.

Jake Arrieta

I think it's a great handicap to be discovered at an early age. I didn't have that burden of early success. I had the much more livable and durable career where success comes late, and comes slowly, and you ease into it. So by the time it comes, you're ready to deal with it.

Philip Glass

And I think that the ultimate way you and I get lucky is if you have some success early in life, you get to find out early it doesn't mean anything. Which means you get to start early the work of figuring out what does mean something -- David Foster Wallace

David Lipsky

I used to smoke marijuana. But I'll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening - or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early mid-afternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . But never at dusk!

Steve Martin

When you're not allowed to stay up late, the secret is to just wake up really, really early.

Bill Amend

The late Alfred P. Sloan, Ir., long-time executive of General Motors Corporation, had a fivepoint "secret of success." It was: 1. Get the facts. 2. Recognize the equities of all concerned. 3. Realize the necessity of doing a better job every day. 4. Keep an open mind. 5. Work hard.

Alfred P. Sloan

Better to get up late and be wide awake then, than to get up early and be asleep all day.

Matthew Henry

You gotta get up early in the morning to catch a fox and stay up late at night to get a mink.

Mae West

If you're a night person you can barely get out of bed in time to get to work or get your kids off to school. You're at your most productive and creative much later in the day, and for you, something like getting up early to go for a run is not going to set you up for success because you're not a morning person.

Gretchen Rubin

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