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Learning From the Most Ruthless Robber Baron (Jay Gould) | Greg Steinmetz

Forward Guidance

CHAPTER

The Importance of Listening to Others

Gould was so intelligent in the execution and such a quote clean kind of industrious and quote family man that try as you might you can't hate him properly. Gould didn't try to score points just by opening his mouth at every opportunity he could show that he was smarter than people if he was in a meeting with his railroad executives he would let everyone else talk before he did. The Gilded Age character is modeled after Gould because as much as he was a shark on Wall Street he was a loving and devoted family man Vanderbilt when his wife became inconvenient had her incarcerated  Vanderbilt called his oldest son a blockhead every chance he got.

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