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title Integrity and Perseverance in Business ensure success (1853)
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caption A poster from the 1850's promoting Folsom's Mercantile College in Ohio. The poster includes a motto (which I boxed in green) that I think is great guidance: _Integrity and Perseverance in Business ensure success_. Image Source.
In 1851 Ezekiel G. Folsom incorporated Folsom's Mercantile College in Ohio.
https://case.edu/ech/articles/f/folsoms-mercantile-college Folsom's Mercantile College
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Folsom's subjects included bookkeeping, banking, and "railroading".
Their motto was: "Integrity and Perseverance in Business ensure success".
Guess who was then a young student there and presumably influenced by this motto?
John D. Rockefeller.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller John D. Rockefeller
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# Credit
Richard Brhel of placepeep shared this quote the other day on StartupSchool. He saw the quote on a poster years ago when he was helping a digitization effort in Ohio. I had never seen this exact quote before so wanted to transcribe it for the web.