One day, a plain-looking man came with a pretty-looking OL (Office Lady) to the LV store in Causeway Bay ( Hong Kong Island ). He chose an LV bag worth HKD 65,000 for the OL. When it came time to pay, the man took out a checkbook and wrote out a check. The salesperson was [...]
John Templeton (Global Investing Pioneer) who made his fortune as the pioneer of global investing in the postwar boom, has died at Doctors Hospital in Nassau, the Bahamian island that was his home. Don Lehr, his spokesman, said in a statement that the cause was pneumonia. The Templeton Growth Fund was one of the first [...]
Launched in 1977, the Xerox 9700 was the first commercial laser printer. The man who personally came up with the idea of laser printing was Gary Starkweather. He joined Xerox in July 1964 as an optical engineer on advanced copier technology. His idea came while working with lasers as an alternative light source for high-speed [...]
The son of a stockbroker, David Ogilvy was born in 1911. Despite the family’s reduced financial circumstances Ogilvy was dispatched to Fettes School, a prestigious private school near Edinburgh, Scotland. What Ogilvy lacked in natural academic ability he made up for in scholarly application, securing a scholarship to study history at Christ Church College, Oxford [...]
Harold Geneen was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1910. Geneen’s childhood was spent at boarding schools and summer camps. When Geneen started work, as a runner for the New York Stock Exchange, he continued to study at night at New York University. In 1934 his hard work was rewarded with a degree in accounting. For [...]
Robert Edward Turner III was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1938. He was notable for eccentric and unconventional behaviour rather than academic excellence. He betrayed a penchant for taxidermy and catching squirrels in pillowcases. Then he was punished to issue demerits which required the recipient to walk a quarter of a mile. Turner earned over [...]
Born in Oak Park, Illionis on 5th October, 1902, Kroc can be claimed as the modern concept of fast food inventor. As you might know, Kroc tried out at a variety of jobs before carving out a role as a milkshake mixer salesman. At 52, Kroc had spent most of his life selling mixers. He [...]