Quotes About Rockefeller

Archbold became Rockefeller's proxy, picked successor, surrogate son, and court jester.

he suffered under the misapprehension that Rockefeller had conspired with Standard Oil colleagues in the Mesabi venture.

Rockefeller never had a single motive for any action and was surely motivated by more than altruism in championing cheap kerosene.

A fidgety silence was always Rockefeller's harshest expression of scorn.

Nick Rockefeller, a participant in the World Economic Forum and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, may have revealed the agenda of the New World Order in a casual comment. According to the late Hollywood producer Aaron Russo, Rockefeller told him, "The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankers and the elite people control the world.

Impact sourcing, a new initiative piloted by the Rockefeller Foundation and several key partners, including my company Samasource, promises to connect poor and marginalized people to digital jobs on a massive scale.

successful people, like Morgan and Rockefeller, just had a better grasp of social tendencies than unsuccessful people

Gates expressed Rockefeller's disappointment at Harper's failure to raise money from outside sources to reduce the deficit.

A very smart monopolist, Rockefeller kept prices low enough to retain control of the market but not so low as to wipe out all lingering competitors.

Cartoonists stereotyped Rockefeller as a churchgoing hypocrite.

Rockefeller knew that if he got greedy, other products could be substituted for kerosene, and this, too, curbed his appetite for excess profits.

Harper had fundamentally miscalculated in approaching Rockefeller for money.

Doubleday wanted to replace the image of the forbidding Rockefeller with that of the easygoing man he had come to know.

Rockefeller cited the years 1869 and 1870 as the start of his campaign to replace competition with cooperation in the industry.

Now proscribed from asking Rockefeller for more money, Harper forfeited the easy access he had long cherished.

The basic weakness with America's railroad system was overbuilding, which forced the roads into endless rounds of rate cuts and wage cuts to service debt. At the same time, the massive power of their largest consumers—notably Rockefeller in oil and Carnegie in steel—forced them to grant preferential rebates to big shippers, enraging small western farmers and businessmen and stimulating calls for government regulation.

To devise a comprehensive solution for the industry, Rockefeller again needed money: money to create economies of scale, money to build cash reserves to endure downturns, money to heighten efficiency.

As with oil, ore prices skidded lower, bankrupting marginal producers and bolstering the Rockefeller-Carnegie alliance.

Since Rockefeller believed in meritocracy, not aristocracy, he favored educational opportunities for minorities.

The tricky part for Rockefeller and Flagler was how to supplement their capital without relinquishing control; the solution was to incorporate, which would enable them to sell shares to select outside investors.

Rockefeller's partners "seldom knew what he was thinking but he always knew what we were thinking.

Rockefeller reiterated his faith that cooperation, not competition, advanced the general welfare.

Always on good terms with Rockefeller, Twain thought he deserved a fair hearing from the press and was sure he would make a good impression on the publishers.

By this point, the search for Doc Rockefeller had developed into a national obsession.