Standard Oil Quotes:

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 by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.

- Ida Tarbell

topic: Wall, Cutting, Organization, Espionage, Standard Oil

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 saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.

- Hu Shih

topic: Light, Vegetables, Oil, Standard Oil, Electric Light

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 City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. 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 in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

- Smedley Butler

source: Smedley Darlington Butler (2016). “War Is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Brother, Wall, Boys, Standard Oil, Dominican Republic

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

- John D. Rockefeller

topic: Money, Way, Making Money, Makin Money, Inspirational Money Making

One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical. Canonise 'business success,' and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!

- Ida Tarbell

source: Ida M. Tarbell (2012). “The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer Version”, p.224, Courier Corporation

topic: Depressing, Business, Hero, Standard Oil, Most Depressing

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 holdings must exceed those of Standard Oil, A.T.&T., and U.S. Steel combined. And our roster of dues-paying members must be second only to the tax rolls of the United States Government.

- Avro Manhattan

topic: Real, Oil, Government, Standard Oil, Rosters

I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful. I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.

- Ida Tarbell

source: Source: jcdcvl.wordpress.com

topic: Book, Writing, Eye, Standard Oil, John D Rockefeller

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, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.

- George Packer

source: "Where Have All the Workers Gone?" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2014.

topic: Apples, Oil, Google, Standard Oil, Economic Power

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 out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Powerful, Government, Oil, Standard Oil, Paper Money

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 of New Jersey. These were name changes that worked. But for all the ones that do, there are 10 or 20 that don't.

- James Surowiecki

topic: Sports, Nike, Blue, Standard Oil, Oil Companies

I'm glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I'm glad many people read my book and found out the truth.

- John D. Rockefeller

source: Source: jcdcvl.wordpress.com

topic: Book, Oil, People, Standard Oil

You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.

- Will Rogers

source: Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

topic: Running, Business, Years, Standard Oil

Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power, this story never would have been written. Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices. The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.

- Ida Tarbell

source: Ida M. Tarbell (2009). “The History of the Standard Oil Company”, p.287, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Country, Business, Men, Standard Oil, Acumen