Shane Parrish
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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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Ledger A, the little volume where the boy clerk recorded his first wages and his first gifts in the same careful hand, telling the same story all his life.
The getting and the giving were one act, two columns and a single account, both of them done for the glory of God and the good of man.
And he believed that completely.
The country never did settle the question.
It went on doing with John D. Rockefeller what it had always done, lionizing him when it admired wealth and vandalizing him when it didn't.
He outlasted every verdict.
He was the most hated man in America, and he was neighbor John, pressing dimes into the hands of children.
And the strangest part is that he had not changed all that much.
The country had.
I want to talk about some of my reflections from all the research that the team and I have done over the past few months into John D. Rockefeller.
And I just wanted to mention some of the things that really stood out to me.
One of the things that I noted really early on was Flagler had a way of putting this.
And he said, a friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.
And that was kind of their partnership in a nutshell.
And I think there's a lot of truth into that as somebody who deals with a lot of friends in business.
Another thing that stood out for me was the 1857 when the sharp depression hit the country and it nearly took out Hewitt's firm with it.
The door sort of stayed open, but as Rockefeller later put it, they were bankrupt.
And what stood out to me there was Hewitt was not focused at all on the business.
At the time, he was carrying on too many things at once.
He was giving more time and attention to land deals and lawsuits than to the commission business that was supposed to be funding it all.
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