Quotes About Rockefellers

the war was financed with a $200 million loan from the Rockefellers' National City Bank. How was the loan to be repaid? Since no income tax then existed, a telephone tax was levied on the American people. That tax remained in place for 108 years.

The - the early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and - and remained personally very wealthy. Tatas were different in the sense the future generations were not so wealthy. They - they were involved in the business, but most of the family wealth is put into trust, and the family did not, in fact, enjoy enormous wealth.

The early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and remained personally very wealthy.

I think a politician would be very, very cool to play. Or an American musician of some sort, or like an American pioneer like the Dohenys or the Rockefellers or something.

It never occurred to the Rockefellers to trade up to a more socially prestigious denomination. "Most Americans when they accumulate money climb the golden spires of the nearest Episcopal Church," H. L. Mencken later observed.

The Rockefellers were more interested in exercise, which stressed health, than in sports, which stressed pleasure.

Rockefellers and other Wall Street capitalists such as Jacob Schiff, Elihu Root, J. P. Morgan, and the Harriman family

The Rockefellers could be playful on occasion.

The Rockecenters advocated worldwide population reduction for generations.

They're a family of American tycoons and philanthropists," the paper reported. "Their international spectrum of friends includes Britain's Princess Diana, Nobel Prize winners, influential entrepreneurs—in general, the upper crust of society . . . They're not the Rockefellers. They're the Sacklers.