Quotes About Influence

all looking up at the windows of J. P. Morgan & Co.

Instead of making isolated gifts, Rockefeller wanted to finance institutions whose research would have a pervasive influence.

He was the embodiment of power and purpose.

More than one person who was refused later accused Rockefeller of having ruined him.

his massive shadow dominated his son's life.

Perhaps if Rockefeller had made himself available at the beginning of his career as he now did at the end, he might not have been sitting in the witness stand.

when John Rockefeller dies," Archbold said, "the world is going to be surprised to learn what a very great man he has been in every way.

A central tenet of the American Revolution had been that a corrupt British ministry had suborned Parliament through patronage and pensions and used the resulting excessive influence to tax the colonists and deprive them of their ancient English liberties

Far sooner than Rockefeller, the railroads had foreseen the political reaction and inevitable defeat.

Pierpont was amenable to central banks so long as they were private and had boards composed of bankers.

The certificate of deposit was more difficult to trace than a check and was the instrument of choice for political bribery.

It was the same act of ventriloquism: the State Department talked, and Tom Lamont moved his lips.

Yet Gates was groomed by Rockefeller, and if he was granted a large measure of freedom, it was partly because Rockefeller had trained him as his proxy.

Rockefeller's overwhelming influence on the oil industry stemmed from the conflict between his overmastering need for order and the turbulent, unruly nature of the infant industry.

Pierpont's anti-Semitism was well known.

His dislike of Jews may have been sharpened by dealings with the Rothschilds.

Then suddenly, in early 1889, Rockefeller grew aloof toward William Rainey Harper, who had committed the classic error of promoting his cause too assertively.

Beyond the size of his stake, Rockefeller also possessed an unlikely charisma

Mr. Rockefeller may have made himself the richest man in the world, but he has paid.

National City became known as the oil bank, much as J. P. Morgan and Company would be called the steel bank.

but Rockefeller started at the top, believing that if he could crack his strongest competitor first, it would have a tremendous psychological impact.

In time, it would become hard to disentangle the House of Morgan from various aspects of Anglo-American policy.

We know that Archbold had studied corruption at the master's feet, but Senior made no effort to disabuse his son.

It is hard to exaggerate the power that Pierpont accrued.