The CEO of Japan Airlines makes $90,000 a year, less than the pilots. During an interview, he said "We in Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses who pursue money first fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenet of business ethics."
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When Scott Paper Company first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment.
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A Kodak engineer constructed the first digital camera in 1975. They didn't want to go digital. They went bankrupt in 2012.
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Blockbuster laughed at a Netflix partnership proposal in 2000.
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The upside-down ketchup bottle earned its inventor 13 million dollars.
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The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.
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Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, is dyslexic.
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