Insull: The Rise and Fall of a Billionaire Utility TycoonThis is a reprint of a previosly published work. It dewals with Samuel Insull, who was Thomas Edison's private secretary and founded the business of centralized electric supply. He organized the Edison General Electric Company. |
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Page viii
... important labor unions ; that in the development of the idea and techniques of modern public relations , he was the crucial link between Phineas T. Barnum and Madison Avenue ; and that he devised methods of marketing securities that ...
... important labor unions ; that in the development of the idea and techniques of modern public relations , he was the crucial link between Phineas T. Barnum and Madison Avenue ; and that he devised methods of marketing securities that ...
Page 6
... important than any of the family characteristics Insull inherited was his physical constitution . An ancient tradition holds that the energy of a family can accumulate for generations , if none expends it , and then , by some mutation ...
... important than any of the family characteristics Insull inherited was his physical constitution . An ancient tradition holds that the energy of a family can accumulate for generations , if none expends it , and then , by some mutation ...
Page 7
... important to the fate of the Insulls , it acquired a £ 150,000 operating fund and was able to engage full- time secretaries in several districts . As a reward for dedicated service , Insull Senior was given a paid secretaryship in the ...
... important to the fate of the Insulls , it acquired a £ 150,000 operating fund and was able to engage full- time secretaries in several districts . As a reward for dedicated service , Insull Senior was given a paid secretaryship in the ...
Page 8
... important assumptions and generalizations , and thoroughly assimilating its salient details . Less obvious was a related quality of mind . Quite un- like his father , who reasoned deductively from abstract principles or generalizations ...
... important assumptions and generalizations , and thoroughly assimilating its salient details . Less obvious was a related quality of mind . Quite un- like his father , who reasoned deductively from abstract principles or generalizations ...
Page 10
... important to Insull was his own adapta- tion of hard - boiled utilitarianism ( That is good which produces the greatest happiness to the greatest number ; Only that which is useful is good ; Survival of the fittest , and the devil take ...
... important to Insull was his own adapta- tion of hard - boiled utilitarianism ( That is good which produces the greatest happiness to the greatest number ; Only that which is useful is good ; Survival of the fittest , and the devil take ...
Contents
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25 | |
Chicago | 55 |
Intimates | 74 |
The Big Shot | 102 |
Or The Short Happy Life of Samuel Insull | 133 |
The War | 162 |
191723 | 188 |
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Page v - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 2 - I have erred, but my greatest error was in underestimating the effect of the financial panic on American securities and particularly on the companies I was working so hard to build. I worked with all my energy to save those companies. I made mistakes, but they were honest mistakes. They were errors in judgment, but not dishonest...
Page 21 - I was naturally prepared to accept him as a hero. With my strict English ideas as to the class of clothes to be worn by a prominent man, there was nothing in Edison's dress to impress me. He wore a rather seedy black diagonal Prince Albert coat and waistcoat, with trousers of a dark material, and a white silk handkerchief around his neck, tied in a careless knot falling over the stiff bosom of a white shirt somewhat the worse for wear. He had a large wide-awake...
Page 23 - If he were exhausted he might more likely be asleep in the middle of the day than in the middle of the night, as most of his work in the way of inventions was done at night. I used to run his office...