John D. Rockefeller Quote

The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest…The American beauty rose can be produced in the splendour and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it.

W. J. Ghent Our Benevolent Feudalism (1902); 'American Beauty Rose' became the title of a 1950 song by Hal David and others