John D. Rockefeller, Sr. died today – 71 years ago

Entrepreneur (founding the Standard Oil company) John Davison Rockefeller, Sr. was born on July 8, 1839 in Richford, New York. He said, “The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right." [Unless a hurricane or tornado or cyclone or tsunami or earthquake or fire or flood or landslide or virus or bacteria or cancer or disease or ... occurs.]... Mr. Rockefeller died on May 23, 1937 in The Casements, Ormond Beach, Florida.