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Learning business strategy from biographies, specifically Rockefeller's concept of 'secret allies' for gaining an industry advantage.
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Second and biggest thing is I took an idea from one of Rockefeller biographies So one of the things that I do that I also think is important is you read all the famous biographies but you got to go through the bibliographies Books are made out of books Everybody has read Titan by Ron Chernow In the bibliography of that, there's a better, the best
... See moreMore pointedly, he told Kennedy: “I have in my possession the names and amounts paid by him [Hill] to bribe the Minnesota legislature.” However, he never produced any such list. Barnes commented in June 1879, “I think the old man has gone crazy with jealousy and spite.” It is unclear what the associates had actually promised Farley. Promising him
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If at the Greenbrier Johnson subordinated his desire for personal wealth to his desire to become President, he found, in 1942, a way to reconcile his two ambitions—and in years to come he found a dozen ways, and he entered the Oval Office perhaps the richest man ever to occupy it. Shortly after he assumed the Presidency, Life magazine, in the most
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Quezon gave Douglas MacArthur half a million dollars from the Philippine treasury—a reward for services rendered. MacArthur, as an officer in the U.S. military, was forbidden to accept it, but he did anyway. Quezon and MacArthur set off for Australia, with Romulo trailing after them.