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Founders: #75 Henry Clay Frick: Andrew Carnegie's Partner

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[00:00:00] Charles Schwab summarized Frick to an interviewer in the 1930s. No man on earth could get close to him or fathom him. He seemed more like a machine, without emotion or impulses, absolutely cold-blooded. He had good foresight and was an excellent bargainer. His assets were that he was a thinking machine I'm going to talk to you about today, which is Henry Clay Frick, The Life of the Perfect Capitalist. And it's written by Quentin R. Skrabek, Jr. There's actually a word in that intro that I was not familiar with, and I had to look it up, and that's that word comptometer. [00:01:00]…

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