Quotes About Business

He was a slow learner but patient and persistent and, like J. P. Morgan and Jay Gould, exhibited a terrific head for math.

the three increasingly clash as they sell competing services.

I find I already thirst for knowledge about the business.

In a similar vein, Rockefeller was concerned that if he advertised his own wealth through fancy houses, he might attract investors into the refining business and only worsen the excess capacity problem.

With Standard Oil moving its headquarters to New York, the neighborhood was becoming a colony of company directors.

Johnson tried to persuade Rockefeller that these skills would serve him well in golf.

McGregor won Rockefeller's absolute trust on all technical matters.

Meanwhile, the secretive Senate met upstairs in a chamber without a spectator section. For the first five years, senators conducted their business behind closed doors.

As with personal accounts, it never wanted to appear too eager for business.

John had always confided in her about business and in 1893 was still sending her detailed reports about Mesabi ore.

he had positively no gift, except that of making money.

However much Grant enjoyed his Parisian rambles and glimpses of quotidian life, he was mystified about the charms American expatriates found there. I have walked over the city so thoroughly that the streets are quite familiar to me, he told Buck, his provincial roots showing. The city is beautiful, but I do not see the inducements for so many Americans remaining here year after year who are not engaged in business. I certainly should prefer any of our large cities as a residence.p871

This policy, which kept colleagues from defecting and forming competing companies, was one of many expensive extravagances that accompanied the creation of the monopoly.

Having outsmarted the largest railroad, Rockefeller had acquired a stranglehold on the three major roads, and his taming of the imperious Tom Scott guaranteed that no railroad president would ever dare to tangle with him again.

Mr. Peabody had been very hard on him as to the price of the lease.

And he had inherited the chief American bank in London.

agonized over the judicious application of his money and found it harder to exercise scrutiny over charities than over business.

Jack wrote his mother how things couldn't proceed in New York in Pierpont's absence.

As philosopher Herbert Spencer once said, "A business partnership, balanced as the authorities of its members may theoretically be, presently becomes a union in which the authority of one partner is tacitly recognized as greater than that of the other or others."16

its dividend was halved.

In their approach to business, the two men had often mirrored each other, stressing attention to detail, ruthlessly slashing costs, and keeping dividends low.

No business experience was ever wasted upon Rockefeller.

Carnegie had seriously misjudged developments in the ore business.

Had their opinions clashed, John might have been exposed to critical perspectives that could have saved him from his business excesses.