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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Rockefeller often went to bed worrying about how he would ever repay the loans.
And then he woke up in the morning, refreshed by his sleep, determined to borrow even more.
It was in these years that he began a habit that he would keep for the rest of his life—
At night, head on his pillow, he would deliver little sermons to himself.
The subject was usually the same, reminding himself to stay the course.
You've got a fair fortune.
You have a good property now.
But suppose the oil fields gave out.
At the office, he never showed a flicker of doubt, but on the pillow, he would rehearse disaster nightly.
The best-known example of his cost obsession came a few years later on a plant inspection.
Rockefeller stopped at a line where men were sealing kerosene cans with solder, and he asked how many drops it took to seal one.
Forty, he was told.
Have you tried thirty-eight?
The men tried 38.
A few cans leaked.
They tried 39.
None leaked.
39 drops became the standard across every plant the company owned.
One drop of solder multiplied across what was eventually millions of cans easily saved hundreds of thousands of dollars.
His partner, Andrews, kept improving the refining process, and soon they were squeezing more kerosene out of each barrel of crude than anyone in Cleveland.
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