Quotes About Influence

What he brought to the concept was unprecedented scale and scope.

Rockefeller established various taboos on the course, including that no business or charitable bequests should ever be discussed.

The Rockefellers could be playful on occasion.

To ensure that he won, he submitted to games only where he could dictate the rules.

Many thought he was being retained because his name was Rockefeller

His contact with Rockefeller and involvement in the University of Chicago followed soon thereafter.

Eliza increased her dependence on John, as if training him to be everything Bill wasn't.

Although Hanna urged him to drop the suit, Watson would not relent.

the wealth of the Rothschilds consisted of the bankruptcy of nations.

Junior was awed by his father, whom he regarded as a marble figure on a pedestal.

Having known many rich people, Gates was impressed that Rockefeller had no private yachts or railroad cars.

In retrospect, Congress, by denying a charter to the foundation, had forfeited a chance to restrict Rockefeller's influence over his money.

Significantly, Rockefeller surrounded himself in the early 1890s with brand-new men who could defend his past with total sincerity—and total ignorance

From the First Philippic of Demosthenes, he plucked a passage that summed up his conception of a leader as someone who would not pander to popular whims. "As a general marches at the head of his troops," so should wise politicians "march at the head of affairs, insomuch that they ought not to wait the event to know what measures to take, but the measures which they have taken ought to produce the event.

Junior's presence at 26 Broadway further ensured that father would behave more ethically than in the past.

Standard Oil again benefited from hard times to extend its powerful reach.

John never aspired to popularity at the school.

ad John D. Rockefeller died in 1902, at the outset of the Tarbell series, he would be known today almost exclusively as a narrow man of swashbuckling brilliance in business

This pattern of the sickly wife and the autocratic, headstrong husband would be repeated in the life of their son Pierpont.

Rockefeller advised silence, and Flagler desisted from further comment.

To preserve their autonomy, they sequestered half their voting stock in the hands of five men eternally sworn to keep it free of Standard influence.

There was now a self-perpetuating quality to his wealth.

he only hoped his son would help as many people in his lifetime as Pierpont had in his.

Rockefeller embarked on a buying binge such as the industry had never seen.