Quotes About Responsibility

Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money, and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.

If we have done anything wrong," said Pierpont, "send your man to my man and they can fix it up.

Not "unless we find out . . . they have done something we regard as wrong

Lawrence would function as both a peer and a parental figure for his half brother, and his youthful adventures operated so powerfully on George's imagination that the latter's early life seems to enact a script first drafted by his older brother.

She liked to quote the maxim, "To be a good wife and mother is the highest and hardest privilege of woman.

A man of irreproachable integrity, Hamilton severed all outside sources of income while in office, something that neither Washington nor Jefferson nor Madison dared to do.

As Standard Oil's leading figure, he was the only person who didn't have any direct operational responsibility.

Rockefeller reviewed every bill that arrived at home and often patrolled the hallways, turning off gaslights.

Instead, statesmanlike, he applied himself to general policy and monitored the performance of lieutenants, who sent him copious reports about their activities

Following his father's example, he recorded every expense in his little book

In creating this self-protective structure, Rockefeller could run Standard Oil while simultaneously sidestepping responsibility, erasing incriminating evidence, and avoiding contact with his victims.

When confronted with well-documented cases of terror tactics used by subordinates, he blandly conceded some few indiscretions by overly zealous employees and cast himself as a helpless spectator.

As we say out West, if a man can't skin he must hold a leg while somebody else does.

William's imprudent decision figured importantly in the enormous disparity in wealth that developed between the two brothers.

Politely firing the man, he took charge of financial matters and pored over stacks of incomprehensible bills.

Father was never willing to pay a bill which he did not know to be correct in all its items.

While Rockefeller and Gates were irked by the Merritts' ingratitude, they were not entirely blameless.

Gates had to take account of the many things that Rockefeller had ruled off-limits, such as funding social-welfare agencies.

It was testimony to Rockefeller's thoroughgoing sense of responsibility that he preserved each letter for review at home.

he "taught men how to use money and how not to be its slave.

that he alone started and stopped panics.

but he is kept in check by the Drexels.

Extremely punctual for all appointments, he said, "A man has no right to occupy another man's time unnecessarily.

Aware of the rich children spoiled by their parents, Senior seized every opportunity to teach his son the value of money.