John Jacob Astor was the 1st multimillionaire. He made his fortune from dominated musical instruments industry, fur trade, and real estate.
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Small business owners can learn a lot from Pierre Omidyar and the birth of eBay.
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C.J. Walker – 1st black woman millionaire. She didn’t let life dictate her future, she developed a goal, navigated obstacles, and never quit
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After graduating high school, Malcom McLean bought a used truck and started a small trucking company with his sister and brother. Two years later in 1937, Malcom found himself sitting in a long line of trucks on the Hoboken, NJ docks. He was awaiting his turn for the stevedores and longshoreman to unload his cargo
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Izzy (later change to Elliot) and Ruth Handler were husband and wife that complemented each other’s skills when it came to business. Elliot was the dreamer, who I have often referred to in business as the Oracle or someone who can see things that others can not. Ruth, by contrast, had a business mind and
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Samuel Colt was a great inventor and marketer. He never gave up on his idea even in the face of adversity. Business can learn a lot from him
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There are many lessons business owners can learn from Howard Schultz and the Starbucks story.
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Mickey Drexler hates emails and memos but loves to communicate face to face or over the phone. He prefers personal interactions so he can be sure that others are listening to him. When Drexler was hired as the new president of Gap Inc’s Stores Division in 1983, his first order of business was to fire
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“The year was 1998 and eBay was little more than a glorified flea market with 6 million in sales,” recalls Meg Whitman when she became eBay’s CEO. Three years later eBay had $748 million in sales and 62 million registered users, becoming the envy of the dot-com world. Whitman attributes this growth to persistence and
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The federal government killed the Industrial Revolution by squelching successful entrepreneurs such as JP Morgan, JD Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie and spinning a story for its own political gain
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