Rockefeller said, “To this day, I enjoy the sight of a flock of turkeys, and never miss an opportunity of studying them.” To spur his enterprise, Eliza gave him milk curds to feed the turkeys, and the next year he raised an even larger brood. John’s first business coup came at age seven when he shadowed a turkey hen as it waddled off into the woods, raided its nest, and raised the chicks for sale. By age seven, encouraged by his mother, he was dropping gold, silver, and copper coins that he earned into a blue china bowl on the mantel. Even as a boy, he bought candy by the pound, divided it into small portions, then sold it at a tidy profit to his siblings. Rockefeller already seemed a perfect specimen of homo economicus. Though only dimly aware of such distant developments, John D. Rockefeller’s began displaying and developing his business acumen at a young age: by Ron Chernow.īelow are key highlights from this masterpiece that I wanted to share. The name Rockefeller is ingrained within both American History and Business, but why so? This is the question that set me on the quest to read the National Bestseller, Titan – The Life Of John D.
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