Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
by Ron Chernow
Rockefeller in full: the bookkeeping clerk, Standard Oil's ruthless consolidation, the Baptist piety, the philanthropy that invented modern giving. Chernow balances the monster and the saint.
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you want the greatest business biography.
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Skip it if…
you want brevity; it is eight hundred pages.
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Three things you will actually use
- Ledgers first; everything else follows.
- Consolidation is strategy.
- Give as systematically as you earn.
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Read the chapters on the Cleveland Massacre.
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The greatest business biography.
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