Henry flagler biography book

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Henry Flagler was John D. Rockefeller's most significant business partner at Standard Oil. The case can be made that Flagler was the intellectual genius who devised both the overall concepts and the details of the company policies and programs that turned Standard Oil into the most feared, powerful, and profitable company of the 19th and early 20th century.

Rockefeller himself certainly thought so, and credits Flagler for such ideas as the anti-competitive rebate deals with railroads, the effort to buy out and absorb nearly all of their refinery competitors, and the idea to incorporate as a trust so that the various Standard companies in each state could follow common policies and secretly be one intergrated business entity.

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