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Originally Posted by loquitur
Actually, I'd agree on #3, not on the others, and I'd add "insight" - seeing something other people don't see - as well as hard work. Family money can help but is hardly indispensable. Ruthlessness is a short term strategy at best.
Will, I bet you had some good insights. Right? And some lucky breaks that let you act on them the way you wanted, I bet.
None of this has anything to do with fascism, though.
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Rockefeller never let up from his ruthlessness...not until he was an old man...
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http://www.caj.ca/mediamag/summer2002/books.html
.....Ida Tarbell’s series on the Standard Oil Company (precursor to Exxon) consisted of 18 monthly installments in McClure’s Magazine. Tarbell raked through a wealth of court documents and transcripts of congressional hearings into Standard’s operations. She interviewed people who worked for the monopoly as well as those who had been victimized by it.
Then she documented how Standard Oil officials had fought their way to control by “rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, and perhaps even more important by ruthless,never slothful efficiency of organization and production,”....
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