THE GREATEST BUSINESS LEADER IN AMERICAN HISTORY
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- His name is JJ Hill. He saved a little money, and then emigrated to America. He got a job and learned how to keep accounts. He started a business; then another business. He refused to take government aid when it was offered. He stayed away from debt. He paid his employees, but not himself. He never took a salary. He reinvested his small profits. He set up thousands upon thousands of families who had only dreamed about life, liberty and property. JJ Hill gave it to them. He helped them take dominion over fallow American land. He gave away tools worth billions -- the tools of wealth. It was after all this giving that his profits finally started to outpace his investments. He left an inheritance to his ten children and his business associates of over $6 trillion (AFI). What was the business mentality which sustained all this? Geoffrey Botkin explains the life of forgotten American hero James J Hill.
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These keep getting better and better. Good job!
Just stumbled upon this. Fascinating. Doing more research. Thank you
Thank you for your continuing to motivate & inspire the American Dream in all of us.
This is simply outstanding.
Great presentation
Fantastic history video. More like this would be awesome.
You Sir are an excellent story teller. I think I speak on behalf of a large portion of the audience when I say we always enjoy watching your videos. You have a gift for communicating your message and educating everyone in a very effective way. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos and sharing them.
That was fantastic! And inspiring!
Most excellent. Keep up the good work, the subscriber count will be right around the corner. Thank you.
This is absolutely excellent and an current or would be entrepreneur must watch and learn and model
Truely excellent
Great video.
Appreciate it. We need to more JJ. Hill in US.
J J HILL is the true meaning of a conservative.
Amazing video, I'll have to read more on Mr. Hill. Capitalism is the most powerful tool for improving quality of life mankind has come up with at this point.
Very well done! Thank you!
This was fantastic, I wish more people could see it.
Man, that was great, I'm definitely going to look this guy up and start learning about him.
keep up the good work
This presentation influences my attitude toward my capital. Immediately I think of the talents the Lord has blessed me with and ask myself if I'm using them to further His work. I also think of my children. After my 11 year old son and I watched this presentation together, I told him that he had a math lesson to do. I didn't notice my tone of voice when I told him this, but he shared with me that he felt discouraged by my tone. I apologized and told him that I need to be more careful with the capital that the Lord has made me steward over! I'm sure that J.J. Hill was careful about how he spoke to all of the engineers who worked for him and all of the immigrants that he helped to come to America to further his vision. Also, it really struck me that he had a church established in each town along the railroad.
If the current state of the world is his work then are you the only one with free will?
@heatherromanek5733, Hill very much wasn't a people person. He was a relentless taskmaster who expected those in his employ to give it their all. I've read where he came to near blows with some of his employees in his office. I don't believe he spent a day in church, but understood the need of others to believe. While the belief in a god may give motivation to some, it would seem to me efforts put into real people would better serve them than to try to further a goal of a god you can't demonstrate even exists.
Awesome and inspirational, of course. Years ago my husband and I were eagerly awaiting your video series entitled “The Battle for Civilization”. It appears to have, of necessity, become a living, on hands teaching series rather than a look at the past. Unfortunate. None of us knew at the time of God’s plans.
What book(s) can I find to read more on his life that contains more of his ideals?
Yep
This is good. JJ Hill sounds like an awesome guy. All I learned in school about business is how the "great labor" unions made things better for the workers by a socialist teacher.
There is a balance between the slavery of working for huge corporations of 100+ years ago and the powerful unions which have destroyed America's labor force that we need.
That last sentence is one of the most intelligent sentences I have ever read.
Do you believe Hill would have succeeded without the land grants in Minnesota? He certainly did things differently/better than his contemporaries.
What do you think about Wellington & company?
Hill did get land grants from the government. Sure, it wasnt as much as the others, but you said he didn't get handouts.
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Broke Back Biden 🇨🇳
LOL “war between the states”, said twice after 3 minutes, I want to be in to this but can’t take this guy seriously.
This term is a pro confederate, anti US.
“After the war, the memoirs of former Confederate officials and veterans (Joseph E. Johnston, Raphael Semmes, and especially Alexander Stephens) commonly used the term "War Between the States." In 1898, the United Confederate Veterans formally endorsed the name. In the early 20th century, the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) led a campaign to promote the term "War Between the States" in the media and public schools. UDC efforts to convince the US Congress to adopt the term began in 1913 but were unsuccessful.”
@@robmahrt1823 Did you end up finishing the video anyway? I don't think a short phrase should be used to unilaterally and definitively characterize someone's thoughts and opinions on a matter. Its hardly descriptive enough to truly tell us what his opinion is of that complex topic. Often our opinions are more complicated than all one thing or all the other thing. Also, the video isn't about the Civil War or the politics surrounding it. I have heard people use terms like "Lincoln's War" and refer to Lincoln as a tyrant that expanded modern day government power. But when I initially heard this I was confused because naturally, I've always heard that Lincoln was a great man in difficult times. I have yet to research why those people think that, so I really don't know the merit of those opinions or where they come from. Perhaps there is some truth to the overreach of government power during the Civil War. But I wouldn't imagine that can't entirely characterize Lincoln as a tyrant either. Hardline extremes in people are less common than our discernment would prefer. Its easier to dump people off in camp A or camp B when we are trying to decide if we like them or should listen to them. But thank you for sharing that information. The term "war between the states" being used specifically by the confederacy was not something I knew before.
This book by Professor Thomas Dilorenzo will be helpful to you.
The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
www.amazon.com/Real-Lincoln-Abraham-Agenda-Unnecessary/dp/0761526463
If you dig in to the footnotes in this book, you will find yet more helpful and forgotten historical information
@@robmahrt1823 I mean, it is true. Didn't know that was a Confederate thing, but they are right. It should not surprise anyone that the government would be reluctant to say the truth, as history tends to reflect poorly on governments.