Quotes About Rockefeller

Rockefeller was a forgiving lender and, by all accounts, lenient to a fault.

But the main reason for Rockefeller's silence was that he couldn't dispute just a few of Tarbell's assertions without admitting the truth of many others

To some extent, Rockefeller sent out conflicting messages and was partly to blame for Harper's profligacy.

It was Rockefeller, after all, who urged Harper to pay top dollar for America's best academic minds.

In a footnote, Lawson further conceded that Rockefeller never put a dime into the Amalgamated flotation.

Rockefeller followed Flagler's business adventures in Florida with sympathy but at a distance.

By 1910, medicine and education had emerged as the top priorities of the Rockefeller philanthropies

Perhaps Rockefeller really did have God on his side, for his barrels survived the flooding intact.

Had he not been unfairly implicated, Rockefeller might have enjoyed the rebuke delivered to Rogers.

Precisely because he lost the antitrust suit, Rockefeller was converted from a mere millionaire, with an estimated net worth of $300 million in 1911, into something just short of history's first billionaire.

Thanks to this staggering appreciation, Rockefeller's net worth reached a lifetime peak of $900 million in 1913—more than $13 billion in 1996 dollars.

Both Rockefeller and Archbold favored scrapping their former system of operating through European brokers and instead launching their own marketing subsidiaries.

The soaring fortunes of the Standard companies made it seem as if the cagey Rockefeller had outwitted the country again.

The sudden wealth of young businessmen such as Rockefeller fed envy among returning soldiers, who wished to emulate their good fortune.

The Clarks were the first of many business partners to underrate the audacity of the quietly calculating Rockefeller, who bided his time as he figured out how to get rid of them.

While keeping apart from the management of the RIMR and the GEB, Rockefeller remained more involved with the University of Chicago.

So long as he could maintain ample spreads between crude and refined prices, Rockefeller blessed the producers' efforts to impose higher prices and control output.

It was certainly not their intention, but the trustbusters helped to preserve Rockefeller's legacy for posterity and unquestionably made him the world's richest man.

If Rockefeller generally enjoyed excellent health, there were early warning symptoms of the toll taken by the excruciating pressures of Standard Oil.

At first, Rockefeller swallowed his anger and stoically endured this injustice.

For Rockefeller, the onset of the disease coincided with his breakdown of the early 1890s.

Each year, Rockefeller reluctantly gave another million dollars to bolster the permanent endowment to keep pace with his free-spending president

Rockefeller denigrated his critics as blackmailers, sharpsters, and crooks. He was now dangerously impervious to criticism.

By threatening to strip the others of their oil traffic, the Pennsylvania had placed the Erie and New York Central in a vulnerable position, and Rockefeller and Flagler decided to use this leverage to wring extreme concessions from them.