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David M. Rubenstein • How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
In an office, Ivy Lee was meeting with Charles M. Schwab, who was at the time one of the richest men in the world and chairman of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, one of the largest shipbuilding steel companies in the world. Schwab was obsessed with finding ways to increase his company’s efficiency and, in his quest, decided to hire Ivy Lee, a cons
... See moreLyndon Johnson, Stevenson felt, had used the law against him, not the law in its majesty but the law in its littleness; Johnson had relied on its letter to defy its spirit. Stevenson had first sought justice from the people who knew the truth best, the Jim Wells Democratic Committee itself—and that committee had been willing to give him what he sou
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II
Interestingly, Hill resembled his contemporary John D. Rockefeller in that he usually did well only by investing in his main area of focus; his many side forays into other projects quite often failed. The one truly notable exception, as we shall see, was his investment in iron ore.
Michael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)
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North of Mackay lay the principality of Childs Frick, son of Henry Clay Frick, baron of coal and coke, who had gained his legendary wealth during the Panic of 1873 by purchasing for a pittance the land of desperate farmers without telling them that it contained coal, the raw material of the coke essential to steelmaking, then by crushing other riva
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Power Broker
Fortas felt confident that the jurisdictional grounds would persuade a single Supreme Court Justice—particularly the Justice with administrative responsibility for the Fifth Circuit, Hugo Black—to do what a single Circuit Court judge would not: grant their plea for a stay of the injunction and thereby allow Johnson’s name to go on the ballot. Getti
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II
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