John D. Rockefeller said, “If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” Entrepreneurs in the late 1800s took Rockefeller’s advice to heart and broke new ground, especially in steel, banking, and Rockefeller’s own oil industry.
Write a well-constructed 4-paragraph essay that describes the business techniques and innovations the industrialists of the late 1800s used to achieve success.