Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Behind that eccentric entrepreneur is a bulldog competitor and a sore loser. Virgin usually wins because Branson can do the mundane spectacularly well and because he has an almost unerring ability to connect with consumers, particularly younger ones. Those business instincts are matched by an ability to motivate people who work for him. And who wouldn't want to--Branson seems hell-bent on making sure that everybody, but everybody, is having as much...
...something that interests me. If I think it is done badly by other people and feel I could do it better. If we can shake up an industry--and have fun doing it." He likes to start from scratch and build a new company his way. "An entrepreneur can go in and put his toe in the water, as we did with one airplane--see whether it is lukewarm, boiling or freezing cold...
...CLARK Digital Entrepreneur...
CALVIN KLEIN Fashion Entrepreneur...
Turning real estate into a reflection of a mind that in turn mirrors a society is a tricky literary feat. Millhauser pulls it off by lowering the barriers between realism and myth. The effect is also to remove artificial distinctions between the entrepreneur and the artist. Both, this well-told tale of obsession suggests, are gripped by demonic energies and grand schemes. And both take big risks, not the least of which is to be consumed by their own creations...