Shane Parrish
speaker
20,679 appearances
49 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 15 Sep
Shane Parrish’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 30 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 4.
Appearances
As issue after issue was printed, associates begged him to answer, but he refused.
His response was simple.
If she is right, we will not gain anything by answering, and if she is wrong, time will vindicate us.
Walking alongside him at his Forest Hill estate, a friend pressed him again to respond, just as a worm crossed their path.
"'If I stepped on that worm, I will call attention to it,' Rockefeller told him.
"'If I ignore it, it will disappear.'"
The composure was a performance.
On a train west, a companion read to him the most recent installment aloud, and he listened with keen interest and no resentment.
Then he turned away and he attempted to discuss it, saying not a word, not a word about that misguided woman.
Around the family, he even started to call her Miss Tarbo.
When an old Cleland friend gently raised the subject, he shut that down too.
The world is full of socialists and anarchists.
Whenever a man succeeds remarkably in any particular line of business, they jump on him and cry him down.
And the crowd is always ready to help tear down a successful man.
He believed it.
In his head, there was a complete airtight story in which every critic was simply a sore loser.
The old Cleveland refiners who had sold out to him in 1872 had taken his cash instead of stock.
At the time, they laughed at his folly, but soon their laughter died, replaced with regret and jealousy as they watched the stock turn into fortunes for other men.
There was one place Rockefeller could almost always be found in Cleveland, and it had been that way for more than 30 years, at Church Teaching Sunday School.
He had been the church's superintendent since 1872.
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