Standard Oil Quotes

9 quotes by 8 authors

• I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests… — Smedley Butler
• The Catholic Church must be the biggest corporation in the United States. We have a branch office in every neighborhood. Our assets and real estate… — Avro Manhattan
• I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National… — Smedley Butler
• Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to control… — Ida Tarbell
• Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I… — Hu Shih
• These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive… — Theodore Roosevelt
• You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years. — Will Rogers
• Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company,… — George Packer
• Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company… — James Surowiecki

Who Wrote These Standard Oil Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 9 Standard Oil Quotes as follows:

• 2 Standard Oil Quotes by Smedley Butler
• 1 Standard Oil Quote by James Surowiecki
• 1 Standard Oil Quote by Avro Manhattan
• 1 Standard Oil Quote by Ida Tarbell
• 1 Standard Oil Quote by Hu Shih
• 1 Standard Oil Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
• 1 Standard Oil Quote by Will Rogers
• 1 Standard Oil Quote by George Packer