John Davidson Rockefeller

John D Rockefeller began as a humble oil business book-keeper in Cleveland, Ohio and in just seven years rose to control a tenth of the entire US oil business. Rockefeller was the guiding force behind the creation and development of the Standard Oil Company, which grew to dominate the oil industry and became one of the first big trusts in the United States, thus engendering much controversy and opposition regarding its business practices and form of organization. However these business practices even though they were unethical the result was what were needed in order for the American economy to be what it is now. Without people like Rockefeller we wouldn’t be where we are now. He did what had to be done in order to improve the economic society. When Rockefeller was growing up he was imbedded with this mentality in his head of cheating people. His dad was already training him to become “dirty”. He started teaching him his methods of b...