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At 33 John D Rockefeller was the most powerful man in the US.

What’s your excuse /biz/?

>> No.17709911

it was a different time

>> No.17709916

Wrong place wrong time

>> No.17709924

>>17709880
Too much regulation for anyone to take risks, and no gold mine industry like oil these days

>> No.17709938

>>17709880
I'm a goy.

>> No.17709939

youll be wondering the same thing when youre 33 you useless zoomer

>> No.17709945

>>17709880
A lot of people don't know this, but he was already rich by the time he got into the oil refining business. He made a fortune in the dry goods business.

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>>17709880
there was less competition back then

>> No.17709969

>>17709924
Gates and Bezos might have said the same. There is a gold mine...we just have to figure out what it is.

>> No.17709978

>>17709880

No excuses, I still have several months to achieve this.

>> No.17709994

>>17709945
But he grew up poor and was an entrepreneur from the start. He quit school to help pay for his shit father being absent.

>> No.17710000

>>17709880
Muh depreshun

>> No.17710020

I'm not an ultra-kike.

>> No.17710027

>>17709969
Even of we know what it is, it's impossible to just rush in anymore. The Fed protects the big boys, no room for up n comers who don't want to lick government boot.

>> No.17710030

>>17709880
My excuse is I’m too comfy. I’ve never had life kick me down so hard I didn’t have anywhere to go but up. The people that take risks and bet it all have little to bet or lose from the start.

>> No.17710052

Why did you choose that age, anon? What made him the most powerful man at... 33?

>> No.17710076

>>17709880
Rockefeller was JP Morgan's bitch

>> No.17710085

Aside from crypto it is literally imposible to become rich this days if you were born poor

>> No.17710182

>>17710085
Fuck off commie

>> No.17710189

>>17710052
At 33 he bought 90% of the oil refineries and made the first monopoly putting him ahead of Vanderbilt.

>> No.17710194

>>17709880
No excuse, I still have 15 year to make it

>> No.17710247

>>17709880
40 is the new 30. I got time.

>> No.17710255

>>17709924
imagine being this much of a fag

invent your own gold rush market, there's an infinite amount of want out there to capitalize on

>> No.17710358

>>17709880
Applying a rare case to the masses. Especially when there was less government regulation. Want to make an aviation or space flight company, here pay us millions in government permits. Oil? Nah regulations that make it hard for the little guy while big companies got in before the regulation made it impossible and wouldve likely bankrupted all those big companies if the regulations were around when they came to be. Solar energy? Yeah sure get a load of high tech equipment and large group of people who have experience in this field. Spoiler also expensive.

>> No.17710373

>>17709880
Rockefeller celebrated ‘job day’ every September 26 to commemorate his entry into the business world,” Parr writes. Later in life, he writes, Rockefeller said, “I often tremble when I ask myself the question: ‘What if I had not got the job?’”

>> No.17710390

>>17709958
>>17709994
This and also I didn't say he didn't grow up poor. What I'm trying to say is that is was so fucking easy to make it back then. America was still basically a frontier in the 1850's and 60's. All you had to do was be White and smart enough to convince a bank to give you a loan. Also, Rockefeller, like Warren Buffet, had incredible timing. Rockefeller made a fortune in dry goods because he started his business 2 years before the Civil War broke out, and demand skyrocketed for his produce, making him a millionaire in todays money.