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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Now a little success.
Soon you will fall down.
Soon you will be overthrown.
Look out.
Go steady.
He was warning himself against complacency and pride.
The same man who had absorbed 22 refineries in just six weeks was telling himself every night to keep going steady.
He wasn't even close to being done yet.
While the oil regions were starting to burn his name and tear up railroad tracks, Rockefeller went home each night, usually at the same hour, but now to a brick house at 424 Euclid Avenue.
Euclid Avenue had become Cleveland's showpiece.
It was a wide street under a canopy of elm trees that locals had started calling Millionaire's Row.
The new fortunes in oil as well as iron and the railroads had built mansions there that looked like castles.
The Rockefeller house looked like none of them.
It was solid, two stories tall, but deliberately plain.
A pedestrian walking past might have guessed its owner was a moderately successful dry goods merchant.
And that was precisely the impression that Rockefeller wanted to give.
I hate frills, he later said.
Useful things, beautiful things are admirable, but frills, affectations, more pretenses of being something very fine bore me very much.
Inside that plain house, a family was growing.
Bessie had come first in 1866, and then came the second daughter, Alice, born in 1869.
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