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07-31-2014, 05:52 PM #1
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greatest american business man in the last 100 years???????
topic???????? Who you got?
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07-31-2014, 07:29 PM #2
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greatest american business man in the last 100 years???????
hummm....so many.....
Top of the (my) list....love him/hate him
Bill Gates.
Howard Hughes
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07-31-2014, 10:51 PM #3
100 years? That's going back a ways....I have trouble remembering yesterday. Up near the top of that list though has to be the douchebag that started facebook.
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08-01-2014, 05:00 AM #4
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How about the builders of america...?
Andrew Carnegie - He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which he sold to J.P. Morgan in 1901 for $480 million (the equivalent of approximately $13.6 billion in 2013), creating the U.S. Steel Corporation.
John D. Rockefeller - built the oil industry in the US and was worth more than $1 billion before he retired in the 1900's...he was the richest man in the world back then and would easily be the richest man in the world today if you accounted for how things have changed.
JP Morgan - merged Edison Electric and Thomas-Houston Electric company to form General Electric. He was the dominate force in banking and corporate financing back then. He also helped fund Rockefeller's and Carnegie's businesses...
Todays list would consist of
Steve Jobs - he actually listened to consumers and didnt just build stuff to build it...he built what people wanted.
Warren Buffett - no explanation needed...the government goes to him for help and you can have lunch with him for like $5 million and he'll tell you how to become a billionaire within the next year
Samuel Walton - Walmart...nuff said lol
and good ole Harland Sanders...man built an empire off of chicken whats funny is that I prefer Popeyes...I rarely ever eat at KFC, but the guy built an empire off of it...Last edited by theorangeguy; 08-01-2014 at 05:09 AM.
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08-01-2014, 05:05 AM #5
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Its hard to compare business men from 100 years ago to those of today. Much less regulation = easier to make money. Even if some of their practices were wrong.... they were legal at the time.
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08-01-2014, 05:07 AM #6
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I updated my list and added some current ones...I wouldnt say today is any better when it comes to regulation and what people do to make money. Insider trading is worse imo and the government is more involved with funneling money to person X or company Y than it was back then. The thing that I dont agree with from back then is how they worked people and how they paid them...they would literally work you to death which is how unions got started.
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08-01-2014, 07:22 AM #7
Warren Buffet gets my vote.
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08-01-2014, 09:09 AM #8
L Ron Hubbard.
He came up with complete bullshit and people not only believe it but they pay to be in the church!
And the due who sold the Pet Rock. hahah
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08-01-2014, 09:11 AM #9
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08-01-2014, 09:23 AM #10
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08-01-2014, 09:30 AM #11
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08-01-2014, 11:14 AM #12
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08-01-2014, 11:17 AM #13
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08-01-2014, 11:20 AM #14
maybe that was just Jesus' way of protesting toast that's burned that much??
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08-01-2014, 12:01 PM #15
Or.....maybe, he wants us to eat him. Bread is the body of Christ. In some instances a cracker. You have a bite to eat, do a shot, confess some sins, and bam! All is forgiven.
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08-01-2014, 12:07 PM #16
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08-01-2014, 12:16 PM #17
How many stupid ass Chia Pets were sold? They are still being sold. Obama even has one
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08-01-2014, 12:24 PM #18
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Sea Monkeys......enough said.
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