Creating an industry

Oil & Gas Investor,  April, 2003  by Rockefeller, David

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PIONEERS

When John D. Rockefeller entered the oil and gas business in the 19th century, there was no textbook. His leadership resulted in a corporate model that remains the standard today.

Born in 1915, the youngest child of John D. Rockefeller Jr., David Rockefeller shares the lessons he learned from his grandfather and from his own personal experiences in a recently published autobiography, Memoirs (Random House), from which the following has been excerpted.

David graduated from Harvard during the Depression, when the capitalist order that his grandfather helped to create was under attack ...

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