Quotes About Ron Chernow

Your speech at the First Presbyterian Church has caused me a great deal of annoyance.

Pierpont always denied his yacht was chosen for the sake of secrecy. "I do not know that that was a part of the consideration

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.

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

While briefly serving on the Spelman board of trustees, he preferred to remain slightly detached and subtly enigmatic, never telegraphing his plans too far in advance.

There was now enormous British ambivalence toward Pierpont.

Pierpont was a lonely man, and fame probably only deepened his isolation.

To strangers and the press, he never spoke of his father as anything but a fine, upstanding figure.

Finally, he [John F. Mercer] ridiculed Hamilton as an upstart, a mushroom excrescence, who did not deserve the prominence he had gained.

Had there been management consultants in those days, they couldn't have devised a better or wiser compromise.

Hamilton venerated the law, while Burr often seemed mildly bored and cynical about it. "The law is whatever is successfully argued and plausibly maintained," he stated.

Rockefeller was never tempted to reconsider the issues raised by the Sherman Act.

But we are not, we are as much opposed to the financial policy of J. Pierpont Morgan as we are to the financial policy of the Rothschilds."14

BY the 1880s, as his health was fading

Contrary to her father's predictions, Ida inflicted far more damage on Standard Oil than she received in return.

This generosity only highlighted Frank's chronic dependency and further embittered him.

In politics, I am indifferent what side she may be of; I think I have arguments that will easily convert her to mine.

Rogers's strategy paid off as far as the Buffalo imbroglio was concerned.)

but he tolerated Strong out of respect for his scholarship as well as because of growing ties between their two families.

He feared that Margaret would become isolated from the rest of the family and was haunted by fears that she would be seduced by a continental fortune hunter.

From the start, sensing that Tarbell was full of malice toward Standard Oil, Archbold had refused to cooperate.

My experience at Chicago and with the newspaper people generally of late has been very satisfactory.

the Rothschilds dismissed the French cause as hopeless.