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In his many philanthropic pursuits, Rockefeller believed in supporting efficiency. He said To help an inefficient, ill-located, unnecessary school is a waste ...it is highly probable that enough money has been squandered on unwise educational projects to have built up a national system of higher education adequate to our needs, if the money had ...
John did his share of the regular household chores and earned extra money raising turkeys, selling potatoes and candy, and eventually lending small sums of money to neighbors. [29] [30] He followed his father's advice to "trade dishes for platters" and always get the better part of any deal. Bill once bragged, "I cheat my boys every chance I get.
The top 1% all live better than John D Rockefeller was living when I was six years old. … And today, you can get better medicine, better education, better entertainment, and better ...
John D. Rockefeller is considered to be the wealthiest American of all time, earning his immense fortune after gaining control of 90 percent of American oil production in the late 1800s. The oil ...
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. is a 1998 non-fiction book by American author Ron Chernow.The book covers the life of the American business magnate John D. Rockefeller from his early days as the son of an itinerant snake-oil salesman, into his founding of Standard Oil and its massive success and eventual dissolution, and through the large-scale philanthropy that consumed much of ...
The book famously depicts the lavish living and fancy galas of high-income earners. It's probably no coincidence that Hollywood has decided to turn F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 classic, The Great ...
Rockefeller, Carnegie and Morgan team up to help elect William McKinley to the U.S. presidency by paying for his 1896 campaign, to avoid a possible attack on monopolies. However, fate intervenes when McKinley is suddenly assassinated , and Vice President Theodore Roosevelt assumes the presidency and promptly begins dissolving monopolies and ...
A 1904 editorial review from The New York Times relayed the highlights of the volumes to the public, noting the diplomatic tendencies of Tarbell within her work – still widely respectful of the achievements of John D. Rockefeller but critical of Standard Oil's business strategies that were unfair and of questionable legality. [5]