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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He had each child keep an account book of their own tiny replica of the Ledger A he had kept since he was a boy.
They would tally their income and expenses.
They could earn two cents for killing flies or ten cents for sharpening pencils.
In the summer, they'd be paid a penny for every 10 weeds pulled from the vegetable garden.
Throughout the year, he'd pay them two cents a day for abstaining from candy, with a bonus for each consecutive day of abstinence.
The children of the now richest man in Cleveland grew up with about the same creature comforts their father had known.
Setti went even a step farther than her husband.
When the children got old enough to want bicycles, Rockefeller suggested buying one for each of them.
No, said Setti, we will buy just one for all of them.
But my dear, Rockefeller protested, tricycles do not cost much.
That is true, she replied.
It's not the cost.
But if they have just one, they will learn to give up to one another.
So the four children shared a single bicycle.
Setti also ran the moral side of the house, and she ran it with a firmness that could take your breath away.
She once told a neighbor, I am so glad my son has told me what he wants for Christmas, so now it can be denied him.
But her economy was hardest on herself.
She wore patches on her clothes her whole life, and once shocked an acquaintance by insisting that a young woman needed just two dresses in her wardrobe.
She did much of the housework herself, along with two maids, when the household could have afforded an army of servants.
With the children, she was hardest on John Jr.
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