The Rothschilds Quotes

“to his great joy that he was the richest prince in Europe, with an inheritance in the vicinity of forty or fifty million thalers (between £8,000,000 and £10,000,000), an almost unheard of sum for the times. The Prince moved his court, his officials, his mistresses and bastards from Hanau to Cassel; and because he was short of space commissioned an Italian architect to present him with plans for a fine new palace.”
― Virginia Cowles, The Rothschilds

“All Rothschilds still accept the belief: ‘A family that works together is invincible.”
― Virginia Cowles, The Rothschilds

“The German banker, Moritz von Bethmann, believed that the main reason for the Rothschilds’ success was ‘the harmony between the brothers’.”
― Virginia Cowles, The Rothschilds

“As early as 1817 the Prussian ambassador was reporting to Berlin that Rothschild was ‘easily the most enterprising business man in the country. He is, moreover, a man upon whom one can rely and with whom the Government here does considerable business. He is also … honest and intelligent.’[”
― Virginia Cowles, The Rothschilds

“numismatist”
― Virginia Cowles, The Rothschilds

“So many worthless people relying on French protection are enabled to sin against me with impunity, and nobody now feels that he has any duties toward me; everybody does as he pleases and is actuated by base and selfish motives. I have thus lost more than two-thirds of a fortune that was never very considerable. That is hard, but harder than everything else is my present condition.”
― Virginia Cowles, The Rothschilds

“Banking was still in such a rudimentary state that even bankers seemed to be baffled by it.”
― Virginia Cowles, The Rothschilds

“Ouvrard could rage, Hope could enveigh, Baring could protest; but the Rothschilds had arrived.”
― Virginia Cowles, The Rothschilds

“1870, even though the Hohenzollem Emperor, William II, pressed the family to establish a branch of the bank in his capital, the Rothschilds refused. As things turned out, it saved the family from large financial losses, but it was not shrewdness”
― Virginia Cowles, The Rothschilds

“behaviour”
― Virginia Cowles, The Rothschilds