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Founders: #368 Rockefeller's Autobiography

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[00:00] A: One of the best things about this book is that Rockefeller is constantly talking about the way that him and his partners built their business. And he would compare and contrast the methods that they would use. Compared to some of his, quote unquote, unintelligent competition, which is the word and the phrase that he uses. And his description of unintelligent competition was the type of person who never really knew all the facts about their own business, that they kept their books in such a way that they did not actually know when they were making money or when they were losing…

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