William Boeing never said “it can’t be done” Instead he believed that decisions should be based strictly on fact and not opinions
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Tandy Leather was a family owned business located in Texas. Dave Tandy was a partner in a leather heel and shoe repair business which was founded in 1919. Charles Tandy, the son of Dave, took over the business after World War II and changed the business’s focus to leather craft after seeing how leather crafts
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Arthur Blank, one of the founders of Home Depot, wakes up every morning saying “Who will destroy me today if I don’t keep my eyes open.” Knowing that retailers can’t sit still or they’ll be eclipsed by the competition, Arthur Blank and Bernie Marcus started Home Depot after being laid off unexpectedly from Handy Dan
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Robert Woodruff turned a pharmacy elixir into one of America’s best-known consumer brands. Discover several business lessons from Coca-Cola.
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Daisy Braxton was a single mom with five children when she lost her job. To make ends meet she worked several minimum wage jobs that didn’t offer healthcare. Soon, medical bills for her kids overwhelmed her, and she was forced to apply for welfare. Rather than begin a lifelong dependency on the government, she took
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Earl Tupper invented Tupperware but he had a hard time selling it. People didn’t trust plastic, and they didn’t know how to use the product he developed to store items in air-tight containers. His sales for his first six years was essentially flat. Moreover, he was an introvert and could not manage a sales force
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John Johnson grew up in a small shack with a tin roof in rural Arkansas. In an effort to give John more opportunities, his family moved to Chicago when he was 15 years old.However, coming from a poor area in Arkansas, his new classmates made fun of his accent and handmade clothes. To deal with
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What if you could give your customer his order before he was done giving it to you? Well, that idea is what built the drug store Walgreens. When a nearby customer would call in a non-prescription order using the newly developed telephone, Charles Walgreen would repeat the caller’s name, address and order so his assistant
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A few weeks ago we spoke about the negative effects that can result from not appreciating your employees when we discussed the story of Benedict Arnold. On the opposite side of that same coin, I would place Mary Kay Ash of Mary Kay Cosmetics. At the core of her business model was employee appreciation. She
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Andrew Carnegie was an industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry. He knew that wealth came from creative thinking and not from hard work. He spent six months a year traveling throughout Europe to have time to learn and reflect. Andrew worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad as a telegraph operator. He
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