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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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.
He was often told no.
What if the president of a bank refused to make me a loan, he said later.
That was nothing.
He might lecture me on the folly of making a loan for the purpose of which I was seeking it.
That made no difference to me.
Simply meant that I must look elsewhere until I got what I wanted.
Like many outliers, John D. refused to quit after someone said no.
Next, he began pressing the railroads for more cars during peak shipping season to handle the growing amounts of inventory he was buying.
they too would rebuff him.
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