Quotes About Influence

control the flow of gold into and out of the United States.

Perhaps never in financial history has anybody else amassed so much power so reluctantly.

If only Rockefeller had played fair, Emery insisted, he would have ended up the more powerful oilman.

He "has so happy a faculty of appearing to accommodate and yet carrying his point, that if he was really not one of the best-intentioned men in the world, he might be a very dangerous one," observed Abigail Adams.

Standard Oil was not content to advance its own interest; it worked actively to damage the business interests of its adversaries.

She exerted a strong influence upon the rest of us.

The influence of the doctrine of states' rights, especially in the version promulgated by Jefferson, reverberated right up to the Civil War and beyond. At the close of that war, James Garfield of Ohio, the future president, wrote that the Kentucky Resolutions "contained the germ of nullification and secession, and we are today reaping the fruits.

the two J. P. Morgans even walked and talked alike.

Fundada em 1746 para contrabalançar a influência da Igreja da Inglaterra, Princeton era um foco de posições presbiterianas e Whigs, pregava a liberdade religiosa e talvez parecesse uma escolha lógica para Hamilton.

Indeed, had he not possessed some charm, or at least cordiality, he could never have accomplished so much in the business world.

Rockefeller always sat in the middle of the backseat.

Washington had a more relaxed style with girls and used to say ruefully that he could govern men but not boys.

Rather than trying to accomplish everything through its own budget, it would awaken public opinion and stimulate government action.

Rockefeller was still held responsible for the sins of Standard Oil

We consider situation critical, politicians appear to have absolute control.

Pierpont began to emerge from his father's shadow and take charge of major deals.

and the power balance within the Morgan empire began to tip from London to New York.

In the end, nobody would do more than Alexander Hamilton to infuse life into this parchment and make it the working mandate of the American government.

Rockefeller was embraced no less warmly by the New York Central, which was controlled by the Vanderbilt family.

England exerted much the same influence over American economic policy as Japan would nearly a century later, when it financed much of the U.S. budget deficit in the 1980s.

Rockefeller worked by subtle hints, doling out praise sparingly to employees and nudging them along.

Her father was slowly dying of stomach cancer while she was writing her series, and this might have further embittered her toward Rockefeller

Rockefeller placed a premium on internal harmony and tried to reconcile his contending chieftains. A laconic man, he liked to canvass everyone's opinion before expressing his own and then often crafted a compromise to maintain cohesion. He was always careful to couch his decisions as suggestions or questions

U.S. Steel had pushed Frank Kellogg to target Standard Oil so as to deflect heat from itself.