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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The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
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7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day.
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The man who created the Thighmaster was once a Bhuddist Monk.
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Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was a college drop out.
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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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The Shell Oil Company began as a novelty shop in London that sold sea shells.
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