Blue Quote by Charles R. Morris

Where would the Rockefellers be today if old John D. had gone on selling short-weight kerosene ... to widows and orphans instead of wisely…

— S. J. Perelman

“Cornelius Vanderbilt and his fellow tycoon John D. Rockefeller were often called 'robber barons'. Newspapers said they were evil, and ran cartoons showing Vanderbilt…

— John Stossel

Never before in history has the global marketplace touched so many consumers and provided access to so many producers.

— Peter Diamandis

Rockefeller made his money in oil, which he discovered at the bottom of wells. Oil was considered crude in those days, but so was…

— Richard Armour

The pure products of America go crazy

— William Carlos Williams

[John D. Rockefeller] didn't care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He…

— Ida Tarbell

The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts.

— John Smith

Who was the greatest business man ever. . . The greatest salesman? Advertiser? Who? . . . It was Jesus. . . Jesus was…

— Paul Harding

“Massachusetts, like Queen Elizabeth, encouraged salt making through the granting of monopolies to those who showed the skill to produce salt cheaply. The colony…

— Mark Kurlansky

After an era of everything being super-sized, who would have thought that major companies would be racing to market smaller, lower-calorie versions of their…

— Michelle Obama

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

— Ralph Nader

In 1994, when I came to PepsiCo, there were really three businesses. They were soft drinks, which included both bottling and the concentrate company.…

— Indra Nooyi