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However, it was the delectable cheesecake recipe of one entrepreneur's mother that gave birth to the chain in Beverly Hills, where the first franchise opened...
...security, employing a large number of bodyguards. He is litigious, and his dismissal of scores of Harrods' employees also invited litigation against him. And despite the riches he flaunts--a fleet of 64 Rolls-Royces, properties on London's Park Lane, a $32 million yacht--his record as an entrepreneur is very mixed. Last year the board of the weekly Observer rebuffed al Fayed's attempts to buy the paper, saying it was not for sale. In 1995 Rupert Murdoch shut down his Today newspaper rather than sell it to al Fayed. Bids to purchase the London News Radio station...
...next chapter, the princess who insisted, with the innocence of a New World conqueror, that love could be brought into the royal chamber. Hers was another American revolution, which said we don't want to shed this crown, we want to reinvent it. She was an entrepreneur, not content to marry the title but apparently determined to live...
...bless Steve Jobs. His courage and commitment to Apple Computer are in the spirit of a true entrepreneur. Apple lighted the minds of young people, in the same way that the Rural Electrification Administration lighted rural America more than 60 years ago. With people like Jobs, the future of America's youth is right on track for the new millennium. MILT SMEDSRUD Fergus Falls, Minn...
...those things about hippie freedom and giving each other space go out the window at 3 a.m. when you don't get a phone call," says Steve Lynn, a hard-driving entrepreneur who operates nine burrito restaurants and still wears denim overalls to work. "My mother said, 'I hope you have a child just like you. It's the only way you'll know how much it pains me, what you're doing.' But the gulf between me and my mother was greater, because the change from the '50s to the '60s was greater. I mean, what could you tell...