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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
John D. Rockefeller
— John D. Rockefeller
Industrialist, founder of Standard Oil

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Maxim usually attributed to Baron Nathan Rothschild; attribution to Rockefeller is unsourced.

Photo: Basile Morin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · Portrait: Published by Scientific American Compiling Dep't, New York. 1907. (Public domain)

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