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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They're good enough for me.
Rockefeller never forgot how that felt.
Just think of it, he said.
A bank had trusted me for $2,000.
I felt that I was now a man of importance in the community.
It looked from the outside like the easiest thing in the world.
A 20-year-old walks into the office of the most important banker in Cleveland and walks out with $2,000.
But Handy hadn't made that decision on instinct alone.
It was years in the making.
Handy was active in the Young Men's Christian Association.
Recently, so had been John D. Rockefeller.
And as a member of the board of school managers, Handy had taken to visiting nearby Central High School to observe the progress of its pupils.
Rockefeller had been one of them just four years earlier.
And for the past couple of years, Handy had watched the young man walk into his bank at regular intervals to make deposits into a savings account.
Always small amounts, but put away steadily month after month.
So when Rockefeller sat down that morning and asked for a loan, Handy already knew who he was lending to.
In those days in Cleveland, Rockefeller later observed, everybody knew almost everybody else.
After that morning, the doors of Cleveland's banks were open to him.
But not always as warmly as Handy's.
Rockefeller was younger than any of the men he was asking, and he asked with a directness that many found grating.
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