Shane Parrish
speaker
20,548 appearances
48 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 1 Sep
Shane Parrish’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He did not say it with complaint.
He had already figured out that if the return on borrowed money exceeded the cost of the loan, then the rational move was to borrow more.
Interest was just the price of growth.
And the more you grew, the more you could borrow again.
That logic would carry him a very long way.
So Rockefeller went to the banks.
He passed over the smaller banks, of course, and went straight to the most prominent banker in the city, a man named Truman P. Handy.
Handy was president of the Commercial Branch Bank and its principal stockholder.
He had arrived in Cleveland from Buffalo in 1832 and in the decades since had built himself up to be the center of civic and cultural life.
In Cleveland in those years, an endorsement from Truman P. Handy was a passport to borrowing from anyone.
And Rockefeller, of course, knew this.
That's why he picked him.
If Handy said yes, every other door in the city would open.
He knocked on Handy's office door one morning, sat across from him, and laid out the particulars of his business in his usual simple and forthright way.
He then asked for a loan.
How much do you want?
Handy asked.
Two thousand dollars.
All right, Mr. Rockefeller, you can have it.
Just give me your warehouse receipts.
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