John D. Rockefeller, every mention
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John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History
- ▶ 4:42 Shane Parrish I'm your host, Shane Parrish, and this is the story of John D. 35 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:55 Shane Parrish John D. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:23 Shane Parrish When John Dee was small, Big Bill would stand him on a high chair and hold out his arms, coaxing the boy to jump. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:13 Shane Parrish The Erie Street Baptist congregation where young John D. felt most at home was small. 46 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:13 Shane Parrish John D. didn't argue with the picture, but he did argue with the idea that the work was tedious. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:28 Shane Parrish Rockefeller was now 20. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:35 Shane Parrish Rockefeller watched the oil frenzy for three years and didn't move. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:27 Shane Parrish Shortly before he took over the oil business from Maurice Clark, Rockefeller got married. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:23 Shane Parrish Aside from his wife, Rockefeller was closest to his brother William and to one other man, Henry Flagler. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:32 Shane Parrish And yet, in 1869, for the first time since entering oil, Rockefeller was afraid. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:40 Shane Parrish Rockefeller came to see them all, one by one, and he brought his books with him. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:42 Shane Parrish While the oil regions were starting to burn his name and tear up railroad tracks, Rockefeller went home each night, usually at the same hour, but now to a brick house at four 24 Euclid Avenue. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:55 Shane Parrish As Rockefeller would later say, the strong feed during depressions. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:33:33 Shane Parrish Almost all Pennsylvania crude now began its journey above ground in Rockefeller pipe and finished it on a railroad whose rates Rockefeller had carefully arranged. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:42:50 Shane Parrish One of Rockefeller's partners put the problem to him bluntly. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:48:06 Shane Parrish In May of 1887, one of the most senior men at Standard Oil sat down and wrote John D. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:54:33 Shane Parrish This one magazine writer did more to damage John D. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:02:40 Shane Parrish For two years, she came to the Standard Oil office, whisked in one door and out another while Rogers reviewed her findings, and she noticed, kept the light, trained on the founder, and off of himself. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:17:22 Shane Parrish Rockefeller was on the golf course that afternoon playing with a Catholic priest from the nearby village when the word arrived. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:19:41 Shane Parrish Strangely enough, the five-plus years the government spent trying to take Standard Oil apart were the same years John D. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:26:38 Shane Parrish The same year, his father quietly stopped coming in. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:33:48 Shane Parrish By the mid-nineteen tens, the Standard Oil Empire was scattered into 34 separate entities, and the money Rockefeller had made had built a giving machine that was running on rails he no longer had to touch. 46 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:43:02 Shane Parrish That ruined nearly everyone who touched it, and Rockefeller forced order onto it. 15 times in the scene
Harrison McCain: The Potato Farmer who Went Big
- ▶ 4:40 Shane Parrish His new boss was Casey Irving, sometimes called the Canadian Rockefeller.
The Outlier Playbook: The Patterns Behind Enduring Success
- ▶ 0:52 Shane Parrish I call this a taste for salt water, and Rockefeller noted
Jim Clayton: Turning Competitors’ Mistakes Into $1.7B [Outliers]
- ▶ 59:12 Shane Parrish John D.
Jimmy Pattison: Building a $16B Empire Without Connections, Capital, or Credentials [Outliers]
- ▶ 54:48 Shane Parrish As John D.
Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi: Lessons from the Top
- ▶ 17:44 Shane Parrish That reminds me of J.D.
Harvey Firestone: Men and Rubber [Outliers]
- ▶ 47:45 Shane Parrish As John D.
Rose Blumkin: Women of Berkshire Hathaway [Outliers]
- ▶ 9:19 Shane Parrish As John D.
Cornelius Vanderbilt: The First Tycoon [Outliers]
- ▶ 3:41 Shane Parrish Rockefeller, Carnegie, Mellon, Gould, Morgan, all were just beginning their careers when Vanderbilt stood at his zenith. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:59 Shane Parrish It reminds me of a quote by John D.
Estée Lauder: A Success Story
- ▶ 1:09:57 Shane Parrish We're gonna run into this over and over again, including with Rockefeller, you know, he inherited a little bit of his father's showmanship as well.
Andrew Mellon: America’s Secret Banker [Outliers]
- ▶ 1:24 Shane Parrish While Carnegie and Rockefeller dominated headlines and built empires of steel and oil, Andrew Mellon created something far more powerful.
- ▶ 20:05 Shane Parrish As John D. 3 times in the scene
Blake Eastman: Learn to Read Anyone
- ▶ 1:08:59 Shane Parrish What's the Rockefeller method? 6 times in the scene
Proven Strategies to Accelerate Growth, Productivity and Profits with George Stalk, Jr.
- ▶ 36:03 Shane Parrish That's so interesting to me because if you look at history, I mean, most of the successful companies, if you go back to Carnegie or Rockefeller, they were always playing offense.
#41 Tobi Lütke: The Trust Battery
- ▶ 23:41 Tobi Lütke Like, like, how did, why, um, like, how did it happen that only Rockefeller saw that, um, the money in oil was in the refineries, not in the wells, right?
#35 Robert Greene: Alive Time vs. Dead Time
- ▶ 16:04 Robert Greene Um, I just read, for the chapter I'm writing now, I read Ron Chernow's book on Rockefeller, and although- Titans?
- ▶ 21:58 Robert Greene Um, and then when I come to write the story, let's say I'm writing about Rockefeller, which I'm doing now, I now take the cards and the book