Entreprenuers You Admire
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Felix Dennis
Richard Branson
Olav Thon -- One of the smartest people I know from Norway.
Jordan Belfort -- Take the lessons from this guy's way of working (not his lifestyle -- whores are okay but not the excessive drugs) - and mix it with Felix's advice!
Richard Branson
Olav Thon -- One of the smartest people I know from Norway.
Jordan Belfort -- Take the lessons from this guy's way of working (not his lifestyle -- whores are okay but not the excessive drugs) - and mix it with Felix's advice!
Jokingly or not, these guys have truly built something remarkable out of nothing.
Richard Branson (for me he gets more kudos for "going a bit hippy" ... and he's always been that way anyway... just read about his early life)
& Theo Paphetis
& Theo Paphetis
I've read his auto biography. To some extent I agree, but it seems like lately he's been more involved with the save-the-world stuff than in business. It is entirely possible that my perception is coloured somewhat by the way these separate topics are covered in the book.
To clarfiy: I don't think that saving the world is a bad thing.
He said it, not me. It was a great line.
+++++++++
I'd put Buffett at the top of my list....
and....
Raymond Kurzweil - Ray Kurzweil was the principal developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Ray has successfully founded and developed nine businesses in OCR, music synthesis, speech recognition, reading technology, virtual reality, financial investment, cybernetic art, and other areas of artificial intelligence. (Description from kurzweiltech.com).
Surprised he wasn't mentioned already, so I'm adding him to the list.
Surprised he wasn't mentioned already, so I'm adding him to the list.
This.
He is one of the very few people I consider 'brilliant'. There is no other entrepreneur that has influenced my life more than he has.
Robert Kiyosaki, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett (his autobiography is amazing), and Richard Branson top my list.
Thirded. The video he did for TED two years ago really altered my perspective on the Internet and technology as a whole.
Here it is for anyone that hasn't seen it:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfbOyw3CT6A]YouTube - Ray Kurzweil: How technology's accelerating power will transform us[/ame]
John D. Rockefeller- Really can't believe he isn't on here finishing reading a biography called Titian he was amazing came from nothing to become the richest person ever to have lived built a company so large that they had to make laws speciffically for him basically reinvented the way corporations were set up and learned how to fuck with the system at one point Standard oil was producing somewhere in the range of 80% of the worlds oil and 90+ at home. His focus and dedication are remarkable and he has given more away to good causes personally then anyone since or before, started multiple colleges from his contributions to medical science cured several life threatening disease a truly remarkable man.
Standard Oil was an amazing story. I remember a quote from him, "Buy Standard Oil." He said that while they were breaking the company up, while playing golf.... The broke the thing up, and he became more powerful. Amazing!
Sam Walton is mine. Sear blocks him out of all the major markets and he figures out how to grow a business in the small areas left by locating stores where several towns come together. Then drive cost down with superior distribution. Everything is set up so that products are gone from the distribution center and into a store within 48hrs of arrival.
After that it's Oprah, no need to say anything about her.
Sam Walton is mine. Sear blocks him out of all the major markets and he figures out how to grow a business in the small areas left by locating stores where several towns come together. Then drive cost down with superior distribution. Everything is set up so that products are gone from the distribution center and into a store within 48hrs of arrival.
After that it's Oprah, no need to say anything about her.
Sam Walton for sure, and I'm glad to see a woman make the list at last. :usa:
Others:
Mary Kay Ash - Mary Kay Cosmetics - one of the first WAHM heroines.
Coco Chanel - First perfume to be named after the creator and the "inventor" of the simple black dress. Icon.
Also, I saw it mentioned previously, but the concept of being "in the right place at the right time" is discussed in a really interesting way in The Outliers. A fascinating read about many of the same people already mentioned in the list.
Others:
Mary Kay Ash - Mary Kay Cosmetics - one of the first WAHM heroines.
Coco Chanel - First perfume to be named after the creator and the "inventor" of the simple black dress. Icon.
Also, I saw it mentioned previously, but the concept of being "in the right place at the right time" is discussed in a really interesting way in The Outliers. A fascinating read about many of the same people already mentioned in the list.