The Ledger
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Wozniak: HP would have botched the personal computer anyway
“I see now that HP would have done it wrong anyway”
Firestone realized his entire sales force was unnecessary during 1919's boom
“Harvey later realized they would have shown as startling an increase had we abolished our whole sales force, closed all our branches and dealers, and just sent out our tires and freight cars to be thrown off on sidings and taken away by clamoring buyers.”
Parrish: Standard Oil Could Not Have Grown Massive Without Flagler
“Ask anyone today who built Standard Oil, and people will say Rockefeller. They should say Rockefeller and Flagler. The company could not have grown nearly as large without both of them.”
Early auto avoided setbacks precisely because bankers refused to issue debt
“It is a fortunate thing for the industry that it was not favored by the bankers, Harvey reflected, else it would have been financed by bond issues, and there have been several periods when these bond issues might have been foreclosed, which would have set back…”