Quotes About Power

all looking up at the windows of J. P. Morgan & Co.

From the outset, Rockefeller had to wrestle with the demons of pride and greed.

More than one person who was refused later accused Rockefeller of having ruined him.

his massive shadow dominated his son's life.

when John Rockefeller dies," Archbold said, "the world is going to be surprised to learn what a very great man he has been in every way.

Far sooner than Rockefeller, the railroads had foreseen the political reaction and inevitable defeat.

It was the same act of ventriloquism: the State Department talked, and Tom Lamont moved his lips.

For Hamilton, his encounters with the two obdurate generals strengthened his preference for strict hierarchy and centralized command as the only way to accomplish things—a view that was to find its political equivalent in his preference for concentrated federal power instead of authority dispersed among the states.

As we shall see, the truth was far more complex, for the bank would skillfully harness the Fed and use it to amplify its powers.

The federal government had captured forever the bulk of American taxing power.

Pierpont's anti-Semitism was well known.

His dislike of Jews may have been sharpened by dealings with the Rothschilds.

Between February 17 and March 28, 1872—between the first rumors of the SIC and the time it was scuttled—Rockefeller swallowed up twenty-two of his twenty-six Cleveland competitors. During

Beyond the size of his stake, Rockefeller also possessed an unlikely charisma

Mr. Rockefeller may have made himself the richest man in the world, but he has paid.

Many things beyond the absence of Laurens troubled Hamilton that summer, especially the shortsighted failure of the states to grant mandatory taxing power to Congress in the Articles of Confederation, which had been approved as the new nation's governing charter on November 15, 1777, and submitted to the states for ratification.

National City became known as the oil bank, much as J. P. Morgan and Company would be called the steel bank.

but Rockefeller started at the top, believing that if he could crack his strongest competitor first, it would have a tremendous psychological impact.

In time, it would become hard to disentangle the House of Morgan from various aspects of Anglo-American policy.

Rockefeller knew that he was overpaying but couldn't resist a deal that would certify his position as the world's largest oil refiner at age thirty-one.

We know that Archbold had studied corruption at the master's feet, but Senior made no effort to disabuse his son.

Where revolutions, by their nature, resisted excess government power, the opposite situation could be equally hazardous. "As too much power leads to despotism, too little leads to anarchy, and both eventually to the ruin of the people.

It is hard to exaggerate the power that Pierpont accrued.

You see, this scheme is bound to work. It means an absolute control by us of the oil business.