Rockefeller became the leader of the oil industry in the U.S.
"It [Standard Oil] built pipelines and tank cars... railroad stations... horse-drawn wagons to stores and homes... around the world...Standard developed more than 300 by-products. It made tar and asphalt..lubricants...candles, matches, paint, paint remover... Standard spent every cent on something to do with oil." |
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"We had vision... We saw the vast possibilities of the oil industry, started at the center of it, and brought our knowledge and imagination and business experience to bear in a dozen, in 20, in 30 directions."
-John D. Rockefeller
"Standard Oil is really one of the first examples of a modern, large-scale, industrial corporation.... You can consider the vision to build this kind of business to be leadership, or you can see it as the inevitable step in a changing economy."
-Barbara Shubinski, Senior Historian at the Rockefeller Archive