Quotes About Wealth

He made a practice of never carrying less than $1,000, and he kept it in his pocket.

Rockefeller's sisters played a limited role in his adult life.

From the start, he owned more shares of Standard Oil than anybody else and exploited every opportunity to augment his stake.

Rockefeller, who, along with his son, reserved the right to designate the use of two-thirds of the money given.

Right on the eve of Tidewater's success, Rockefeller decided that he might recoup in the political arena what he was on the verge of losing in the economic sphere.

The church would have been devastated without the Rockefeller money and torn apart by the scandal.

Rockefeller's papers reveal that he and Standard Oil entered willingly into a staggering amount of corruption.

Rockefeller never lost his ingrained sense of thrift.

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.

I did not feel I could afford such luxuries, and am grateful for a son who is able to buy them for me.

begged the larger question of whether people should accept money gained by what they deemed unscrupulous means.

Breathtakingly generous in his philanthropy, Rockefeller could also be stingy—appallingly so.

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

Whereas most other tycoons hired subordinates to oversee personal expenditures, Rockefeller supervised every detail

The Corsair was a therapeutic, if expensive, toy for Pierpont.

For Rockefeller, Rice was nothing but a blackmailer.

Rockefeller always sat in the middle of the backseat.

As always, Rockefeller floated serenely above the bustle, pretending to be oblivious to any wrongdoing

Rockefeller was still held responsible for the sins of Standard Oil

As a vast discrepancy in wealth arose between him and his two brothers, Frank tried to redress the imbalance by gambling, only to stumble into fresh fiascoes and exacerbate his reliance on them.

Articles began to appear with titles like "The Human Side of John D. Rockefeller," as if its existence wasn't taken for granted.

Though he rejected champagne as too expensive in his last days

Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.