Rockefeller finally gave up his dream of controlling all the world's oil refining; he admitted later, "We realized that public sentiment would be against us if we actually refined all the oil."
Rockefeller napokon odustao od svog sna o kontroli cjeloupne svjetske prerade nafte, priznavši kasnije, "Shvatili smo da će javno mišljenje biti protiv nas, ako budemo u stvarnosti prerađivali svu tu naftu."