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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Work hard and be frugal and a fortune will come.
He gave them to caddies on the golf course and to children on the street, or to those who told him a good story at dinner.
When somebody spilled something at his table, he would pour dimes over the stain as a tip for whoever mopped it up.
Then a public relations man, junior hired, saw the habit and let the newspapers and cameramen find it.
By the end, Rockefeller had handed out somewhere between 20 and 30,000 dimes.
People started to collect them, mounting them into amulets and framing them on walls.
Old newsreels show him pressing dimes into palms, murmuring, "'Bless you, bless you,' in a thin, reedy voice, like a man giving a communion."
A century later, visitors to his grave still leave dimes on the stone.
The famous soon came to meet him too.
Henry Ford turned up one day at Ormond Beach without an appointment.
He was told that Mr. Rockefeller appeared on the public golf course at exactly 12 minutes past 12.
He met him there at that precise instant.
Ford studied the leathery face and the alert eyes and said afterwards, As soon as I saw his face, I knew what had made this Standard Oil Company.
the humorist Will Rogers came out for a golf game too.
When Rockefeller handed him his souvenir dime, Rogers turned it over and said, you know, after the company this little dime has been keeping, I'm afraid it's going to be a plum lonesome in my pocket.
And when Rockefeller beat him on the golf course, Rogers said, I'm glad you beat me, John.
The last time you were beaten, I noticed the price of gasoline went up two cents a gallon.
That Rogers dared to make a joke and Rockefeller threw back his head and laughed at it said a lot.
He had become a storybook character, a certified American original, and he knew it.
He was, by his own happy account, living his life backward.
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