Care Quote by Ida Tarbell

My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all…

— Ida Tarbell

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

“For the rest of his life, the greater the chaos, the calmer Rockefeller would become, particularly when others around him were either panicked or…

— Ryan Holiday

“They were afraid,” said Rockefeller, “of having to spend money that they couldn’t prove to themselves they would actually need to spend.” Rockefeller”

— Ted Koppel

“A function of Rockefeller’s personality: resilient, adaptable, calm, brilliant. He could not be rattled—not by economic crisis, not by a glittery mirage of false…

— Ryan Holiday

The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune…

— Che Guevara

The early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and remained personally very wealthy.

— Ratan Tata

Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to…

— Ida Tarbell

Rockefeller viewed his philanthropy through the lens of his business, and it really mirrored the Industrial Revolution. It was highly centralized, it was top…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don't know if it is true, but one story I…

— Robert Kiyosaki

If I was as rich as Rockefeller I'd be richer than Rockefeller, because I'd do a bit of window cleaning on the side.

— Ronnie Barker