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Introduction
"Rockefeller was a unique hybrid in American business: both the instinctive first-generation entrepreneur who founds a company and the analytical second-generation manager who extends and develops it. He wasn't the sort of rugged self-made mogul who quickly becomes irrelevant to his own organization. For that reason, his career anticipates the managerial capitalism of the 20th century. Since he never owned more than 1/3 of his company, he needed the cooperation of other people.
Having created an empire of unfathomable complexity, he was smart enough to see that he had to submerge his identity in the organization. Many people noted that Rockefeller seldom said I. Here's a direct quote from him, 'Don't say that I ought to do this or that,' he preached to colleagues, 'We ought to do it. Never forget that we are partners. Whatever is done for this general good is done for the good of us all.'