Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They are men and women who have seen a problem or a public need and figured out a solution, who have successfully overcome all those familiar warnings that what they proposed to do could not be done. They come from diverse backgrounds: they are rich and poor; some are congenital rebels, others traditionalists. What all of them share is a certain quality of mind and character: imagination, boldness, energy and an iron determination...
...while this society often rewards successful entrepreneurs with fortunes, not all achievements can or should be measured by such materialistic standards. There are innumerable entrepreneurs who have solved problems, taken risks, overcome opposition, and who have never made any attempt to get rich. They did it for the satisfaction of the thing itself...
...railroad union organizer in the coal country of eastern Pennsylvania, he worked his way through college, attended Harvard Business School on the G.I. Bill, then went to work for Mike Todd, the Broadway and Hollywood showman. McGowan subsequently launched several firms in electronics and computers, retired rich at 39 and took a trip around the world. Bored, he moved into the field of venture capital. That was how he discovered a nearly bankrupt little company that was trying to start microwave phone service between Chicago and St. Louis. For $50,000, McGowan bought half of it; his shares...
Stuffed with french bread, how can Mr. Hooks help educate the Harvard undergraduate who drew derogatory from the South Side of Chicago who believes that Harvard University is just a place for the elite and the rich...
...Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon (1962), a simple carpenter builds an awe-inspiring bird cage for the son of the wealthiest man in the village. When the father balks at paying, Balthazar gives it to the boy as a present. When the poor donate to the rich, the social order begins to tremble. The powerful man feels humiliated, and the carpenter gets drunk, confused and boisterous: "We have to make a lot of things to sell to the rich before they die. All of them are sick, and they're going to die. They're so screwed...