Quotes About Wealth

Great wealth is a great burden, a great responsibility.

Gates fixed Rockefeller with a steady, quizzical look.

Rockefeller's passion for golf was linked to his medical problems of the 1890s, which turned him into a fitness buff.

I had planned to write the great American novel, having the Standard Oil Company as a backbone!

To mark their new financial status

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

Both Jefferson and Adams detested people who earned a living shuffling financial paper, and when Adams launched a bitter tirade in later years against the iniquitous banking system, Jefferson agreed that the business was "an infinity of successive felonious larcenies." 9 That banks could serve any economic purpose—that they could generate prosperity that might enrich the few but also lubricate the wheels of commerce—seemed alien to both men.

Forced to reconsider, Rockefeller evidently came up with a large enough bonus, although Gates never revealed the exact amount.

Trying to equalize his status with his brothers, Frank lived on a lavish scale that far outstripped his income.

Yet financial differences quickly soured his relations with Morgan.

For such a perfectionist, giving money away was fraught with far more nervous tension than making it.

Gates was always mystified by Morgan's success.

He made a cryptic statement to Hewitt that entered into Rockefeller folklore: "I have ways of making money you know nothing about.

Though he owned 27.4 percent of Standard Oil stock—three times the amount held by Flagler, the next largest shareholder

What also gave the book its force was Lloyd's political message: "Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.

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

For Rockefeller, it was dogma that prices should reflect true market values, not the buyer's ability to pay, and nothing upset him more than the notion that a rich man should pay a premium on his hard-earned wealth.

he was frustrated that he couldn't give money away quickly enough to keep pace with his mounting income.

The Rockefellers could be playful on occasion.

Rockefeller and Charles clashed repeatedly over this question.

It would be equivalent to $500 million today.)

Many thought he was being retained because his name was Rockefeller

Rockefeller attributed much of his success to his quick head for figures.

It was testimony to the political genius of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison that they diverted attention from the grisly realities of southern slavery by casting a lurid spotlight on Hamilton's system as the paramount embodiment of evil. They inveighed against the concentrated wealth of northern merchants when southern slave plantations clearly represented the most heinous form of concentrated wealth.