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John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History Jul 28, 2026 · 44 mentions

• ▶ 5:08 Shane Parrish Finally, in the fall of eighteen-fifty-three, the fourteen-year-old boy arrived in downtown Cleveland. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 17:06 Shane Parrish That same congregation would, in the prosperous years to come, follow Cleveland's money eastward and be reborn as the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, a new address for the same families and John Dee's spiritual home for the rest of his life. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 31:56 Shane Parrish He had arrived in Cleveland from Buffalo in 1832, and in the decades since had built himself up to be the center of civic and cultural life. 5 times in the scene
• ▶ 37:48 Shane Parrish Andrews had learned to refine crude oil into kerosene better and cheaper than almost anyone else in Cleveland, and he was convinced that this cheap kerosene would soon light the world. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 44:31 Shane Parrish Was a rung above the Rockefellers economically in Cleveland, they valued a young man with ambition and sound Christian character, and said he was above all else practical. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 49:43 Shane Parrish He came back to Cleveland broke and looking for the next big thing. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:00:31 Shane Parrish Around Cleveland, he began telling people exactly what he intended. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:08:54 Shane Parrish The independent refiners of Cleveland had spent that winter hearing a variety of rumors. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:17:56 Shane Parrish Euclid Avenue had become Cleveland's showpiece. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:27:27 Shane Parrish After the Cleveland Massacre, the Standard Oil Consortium went national, and it went fast. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:38:17 Shane Parrish Standard Oil next laid four great lines of its own from the oil fields to Cleveland, to New York, to Philadelphia, and finally to Buffalo. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:42:57 Shane Parrish You can't have one head in Cleveland and another in New York.
• ▶ 2:04:22 Shane Parrish The Cleveland Massacre. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 2:45:52 Shane Parrish Rockefeller and Standard Oil is the first site that they had in Cleveland for the refinery was strategically chosen, and it was along a railroad route and a water route, and I suspect that John D. had gotten this from the days of working…