Charles Swab summarized Frick to an interviewer in the 1930s. No man on earth could get close to him or fathom him. He seemed more like a machine, without emotion or impulses, absolutely cold-blooded.

He had good foresight and was an excellent bargainer.

His assets were that he was a thinking machine,

methodical as a comptometer, accurate, cutting straight to the point,

the most methodical thinking machine I have ever known.

John D Rockefeller said he had the soul of a bookkeeper that he seemed to earn money like many pursue athletic awards.

Okay, so that is from the book that I'm going to talk to you about today,

which is Henry Clay Frick, the Life of the Perfect Capitalist,

and it's written by Quentin R. Scrabek Jr.

There's actually a word in that intro

that I was not familiar with and I had to look it up and that's that word

comptometer.

So in case you don't know what it is, it says the Comptometer was the first

commercially successful key-driven mechanical calculator patented in the United States by

Door E Felt in 1887.

And it says that although the comptometer

was primarily an adding machine,

it could also do subtractions,

and division.

And I didn't know the definition of that word until after I already finished

reading the book and I love this this description of Frick because that's kind of

how he comes off to me. They saying he was a thinking machine, methodical as a comptometer, accurate, cutting straight to the point,

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