Word: entrepreneur
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stuff of a corporate soap opera, created by Norman Lear (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman) in collaboration with Sophocles (Oedipus Rex). A crusty entrepreneur single-mindedly builds his obscure shoe company into a billion-dollar conglomerate. He turns it over to his son. The young executive discovers that without drastic reorganization the whole empire could topple. His father fiercely disagrees. Finally, the company's board gives the younger man the power to dismantle much of the corporate structure his father had put together. While the old man watches bitterly from the sidelines, the young executive sells marginal stores and unprofitable...
...miracle was not achieved by the likely nominees for the innovative-entrepreneur success spot, the McDonald brothers, a hardworking pair who ran a Southern California highway restaurant where they turned out tasty hamburgers by a quick, then-unique process--the assembly line. Instead, McDonald's became what it is today by means of a basic capitalistic technique known as "stealing somebody's else's idea...
With eight shows on the air, watched by an estimated 120 million Americans weekly, Lear is the most successful entrepreneur in the history of the medium. However, he considers himself "a writer, first and foremost," and is the most trenchant, uninhibited and influential of the TV breed. Not since Disney has a single showman invaded the screen and the national imagination with such a collection of memorable characters. Indeed, perhaps no American entertainer has created so raucous or raunchy a crew as Archie and Edith, Maude and Walter, J.J., the Jeffersons, Sanford and son-and this season's most...
...effort of third world peoples, however, is continually stifled by their own socialistic regimes. Capital investment, from both home and abroad, is too often discouraged by actual and threatened confiscation of the returns to such investments or the investments themselves. The fruits of innovation are too often denied the entrepreneur. Successful businesses are too often price-controlled and regulated out of business. Efficiency is too often lost in bureaucratic jungles...
...world's lunacy from television newscasts. He seems to have a gift for the mal mot, telling a menacing group of black separatists, "Hey, ol' Martin Luther King was one heck of a fellah, wasn't he?" or informing a $65,000-a-year rock entrepreneur in California that "back East you 'Frisco hipsters are kind of legendary, living off the land the way you do." Among other communards and coconspirators...