#359 The Russian Rockefellers - Colossus
40 things Rockefeller wrote to his son:
I never thought I would lose.
I do not meet competition. I destroy competitors.
Our destiny is determined by our actions and not by our origins.
Visionary businessmen are always good at finding opportunities in every disaster. That is how I did it.
You cannot sharpen your razor on velvet.
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Rockefeller’s job wasn’t to drill wells, load trains, or move barrels. It was to make good decisions. And making decisions requires, more than anything, quiet time alone in your own head to think a problem through. Rockefeller’s product – his deliverable – wasn’t what he did with this hands, or even his words. It was what he figured out inside his ... See more
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As a young man, we see him joining new settings, a church, perhaps, or an association of oilmen, and somehow, without apparent effort or almost without saying anything, he always emerges as the leader. Rockefeller was well built, though not as tall as his father, and a good athlete who enjoyed vigorous work—he loved to pitch in with the men at the
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