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John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History
- ▶ 51:46 Shane Parrish And later, once Flagler drew up the legal forms and the incorporations that would allow them to become the Standard Oil Trust, they were able to reach across state lines and do the swallowing of other business entities whole. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:00 Shane Parrish On January 1018 70, the partnership became the Standard Oil Company of Ohio. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:00 Shane Parrish Rumors that Standard Oil and the railroads were cooking up some secret pact. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:56 Shane Parrish Sadly, she lived just a year, and then Alta in 1871, and Edith in the summer of 1872, just months after the Cleveland Massacre vaulted Standard in 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:52 Shane Parrish For standard oil, it was the clearance sale. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:32:50 Shane Parrish At Standard Oil, by the mid-eighteen seventies, the fight had moved out of the refineries into the oil fields again. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:42:41 Shane Parrish The oil trade now ran on exports, and the exports ran through the eastern seaboard, where Standard's huge new refineries sat. 6 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. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:55:17 Shane Parrish The many who fought the standard oil monster and the few who quietly sold out to it. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:01:59 Shane Parrish The first installment of Ida Tarbell's The History of the Standard Oil Company appeared in McClure's magazine in November, 19 oh two. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:14:31 Shane Parrish The public verdict was one reckoning, the law was another, and it had been grinding towards Standard Oil for decades. 10 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. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:28:02 Shane Parrish In 1910, Junior made his decision and resigned from the board of Standard Oil and stepped away from the business side for good.
- ▶ 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. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:42:55 Shane Parrish Standard Oil rose out of an industry that was pure chaos, a frenzy of booms and busts and reckless overbuilding that 4 times in the scene
Les Schwab: Why Real Ownership Outperforms Experience, Capital, and Credentials [Outliers]
- ▶ 31:24 Shane Parrish Les looked around and pointed to a standard oil station.
Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi: Lessons from the Top
- ▶ 17:44 Shane Parrish Rockefeller when he was first starting out with Standard Oil, and they were welding the oil
Harvey Firestone: Men and Rubber [Outliers]
- ▶ 14:28 Shane Parrish If they could capture just half the buggy market in America, they calculated they'd rival standard oil in size.
Andrew Mellon: America’s Secret Banker [Outliers]
- ▶ 25:51 Shane Parrish When Standard Oil tried to squeeze them out by manipulating railroad rates and trying to block them at every turn, they didn't fight directly. 2 times in the scene