Friday, March 12, 2010

What John D. Rockefeller said

On this day in 1913, J.P. Morgan died. When his estate was valued at $80 million, John D. Rockefeller (net worth: about a billion) said:

And to think that he wasn't even a rich man.

--Quoted by Liaquat Ahamad in Lords of Finance (and countless other places)

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