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Founders: #254 John D. Rockefeller: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers

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What I learned from reading John D: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers by David Freeman Hawke. ---- Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com ---- [0:07] He transmitted messages in code and secrecy covered all of his operations. [0:39] Rockefeller compared himself to Napoleon. [2:20] He could think quicker and along more individual and original lines than any of them. [2:35] It is always hard to successfully control what you don't understand. [3:32] Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller by Ron Chernow. (Founders #248) [7:27] By the time I was a man — long before it —I had learned the underlying principles of business and the rules of business as well as many men acquire them by the time they are 40. I needed no one to advise me about the nature of transactions with which I had been carrying on since childhood. [8:59] Random Reminiscences of Men and Events by John D. Rockefeller. (Founders #148) [10:55] You should try to expose yourself to experiences that are slightly ahead of your skillset or understanding and you should do so constantly. [13:48] A veteran of long-distance provider MCI, Price came to Amazon in 1999. He blundered earl

[00:00:00] To Rockefeller, business resembled a form of war. It seemed natural for him to open a letter with the words, I'm in the midst of a hard battle today. He transmitted messages in code, and secrecy covered all of his operations. That's all too true, he admitted. But I wonder what general ever sends out a brass band in advance with orders to notify the enemy that on a certain day he will begin an attack, he said. Rockefeller, the field marshal, laid down strategy and relied on his general staff to [00:00:29] carry it out. When tactics for a battle had been set, orders went out to,…

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