- Old John D Rockefeller: "When I came into the oil industry, there was chaos. I brought order. I took a small second- rate, inefficient market and built an industry.It was done the way it was, because that's the way it had to be done. No one complained when I brought light into every home, no one complained when I provided thousands of jobs or millions of dollars from exports. Oil is what this country runs on. You call it monopoly, I call it enterprise. Now, you tell me why am I here." Old John D Rockefeller