The Uses of Adversity
Can underprivileged outsiders have an advantage? 1. Sidney Weinberg was born in 1891, one of eleven children of Pincus Weinberg, a struggling Polish-born liquor wholesaler and bootlegger in Brooklyn....
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How entrepreneurs really succeed. 1. In 1969, Ted Turner wanted to buy a television station. He was thirty years old. He had inherited a billboard business from his father, which was doing well. But he...
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Why do we pay our stars so much money? 1. When Marvin Miller took over as the head of the Major League Baseball Players Association, in 1966, he quickly realized that his members did not know what...
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Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about innovation. 1. In late 1979, a twenty-four-year-old entrepreneur paid a visit to a research center in Silicon Valley called Xerox PARC. He was the co-founder of a...
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