Eliza Davidson Rockefeller

“We will let it simmer, she would routinely say. It was her standing counsel against deciding anything in haste, and John D. Rockefeller would use those exact words to outmaneuver and outweigh Wall Street tycoons and independent refiners for the next 70 years.”

“She kept her own ledger, and she taught her children that every dollar was held in trust whether anyone was watching or not.”