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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Appearances
Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.
Rockefeller said he never read the book.
His company, he said, paid no more attention to all this nonsense than an elephant might be expected to pay to a tiny mosquito.
Maybe so, but the mosquito had changed the weather.
By 1888, the noise against the trust had grown loud enough that both political parties were now condemning them and legislatures were opening investigations.
The
That February, Rockefeller had to appear before the New York State Senate Committee, where he gave the performance that became his courtroom signature.
Sworn in, he kissed the Bible vehemently.
Then, for hours, the man with the finest memory in American business turned into a vague and forgetful fellow wandering lost in the corridors of his own company.
The committee's lawyer asked whether he had ever belonged to the Southern Improvement Company.
Rockefeller caught the slip at once.
The man had garbled the name.
The real one was the South Improvement Company, not Southern.
There was such a company, the lawyer asked.
I have heard of such a company.
Were you not in it?
I was not.
Every word of it was technically true.
Years later, he explained himself without a flicker of shame.
"'While they thought they were leading me into a trap, I let them go into the trap themselves.'
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