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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Historians would call it the Cleveland Massacre.
Each refiner was offered cash or standard oil stock.
Rockefeller recommended that they take the stock.
Most took the cash.
The few who took stock and held it would become some of the wealthiest men Cleveland had ever known.
Rockefeller understood exactly why most of them took the cash instead of the stock.
He explained it himself years later, and the explanation has lost none of its edge.
They knew that the oil business under the existing conditions was doomed.
But they lacked faith in me.
They didn't believe I could succeed in what I was undertaking.
So when I offered them either spot cash outright for their property or stock in the new company, they took my money and laughed in their sleeves at my folly.
They didn't see how I could succeed.
They believed I was doomed to failure.
So they took my money and scorned the stock.
Later, when the company did succeed and the stock which I had offered them and they declined to accept took a value vastly greater than the money I had paid them, they heaped censure upon me for their short-sightedness and accused me of having tricked them.
These were not strangers.
These were his fellow Clelanders.
Some sat in the same church as him and had for decades.
He had known these men and their families, and he absorbed their businesses anyway.
Rockefeller didn't see a contradiction.
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