William Rockefeller

“He added with some pride that he had loaned out money and got interest on it before he was 14 years old, and I knew well how to make out a note. My father taught me these things.”

“The children had no idea that their jolly grandfather was now living under a false name in Illinois with a second wife who knew nothing of their existence.”

“He loaned them money at the going rate of interest, showing them that they could do it too. But then, after they absorbed that lesson and tried it out for themselves, he'd go one step further and call in his loans to them suddenly, when they least expected it,…”