He was nicknamed, “Man of the People”, but he was born in a predominate family, and lived well outside his means throughout his life. The process of measuring the duality of Thomas Jefferson requires bendable interpretation, adaptability, and sense of time. There are considerable arguments for both sides. A man born of incredible skill and influence, but contradicted by central government power outside the Constitution and popular belief of a prosperous country built on the backs of slaves. An internal battle, I believe, he fought to his dying die.
Why was Richard Arkwright so successful? Richard Arkwright, one of thirteen, was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1732. However, Richard’s family were not as well off as he would later be, so much so, that his parents could not even afford to send him to school. Instead, Richard was taught to read and write by his cousin. Childhood In his early years, Richard was an ambitious man, with a desire to run his own company, which he pursued, as in 1762; Arkwright began a wig making business.
The books, papers and ideas he was introduced to in his brother’s shop set the young man on a path to greatness. He went on to do amazing things in his lifetime. Benjamin Franklin was America’s first postmaster general, established Philadelphia’s first police department, fire department and fire insurance company, as well as founded Philadelphia’s first hospital and the institution that eventually became The University of Philadelphia (Franklin). I think he may have had an experience involving a fire causing him or someone he knew to get hurt. He was also an inventor.
Fast forward to today's most popular slot machines that are 3 reel forms with a window showing winning combinations for coins played into the machine and you have a recipe for profit to the owners of the machines. Charles Fey, (1862-1944), is considered the George Washington Carver of Slots. He created his first machine in around 1895 in San Francisco. He placed a few on locations to make accessible and did so well that he quit his job and moved full time to inventing, manufacturing and operating slot machines in his own business. In 1896, he opened a factory in San Francisco where he created several machines including the infamous Liberty Bell, Draw Poker, Three Spindle and the Klondike.
He was in Manchester when he heard about the success Richard Arkwright was having at a textile factory in Cromford. At age just nineteen, Owen borrowed £100 and set up his own business spinning mules with an engineer called John Jones. The partnership with Jones came to an end in 1792 and Owen found work as a manager of Peter Drinkwater’s spinning factory. As the manager, Owen met a lot of businessmen involved in the textile industry. David Dale, owner of Chorton Twist Company in Scotland met with Robert Owen and the two became great friends.
The case study that I found was about the New York Blower Company (NYB), which is a leading manufacturer of industrial size fans and blowers for well over 100 years. It was faced with an expensive replacement of its current telephone system, so they hired Appia Partner STRYD Technologies. When they hired them NYB gave them three goals they would like to achieve: * Stop having to revamp or replace its phone system so often * Control the overall costs of monthly fees * Find a better way to communicate with mobile supervisors on the floor With these goals in mind STRYD suggested a hosted Voice-over-IP (VoIP) solution from Appia. However, NYB was very skeptical about switching to a VoIP, from monitoring it for nearly a decade and had always been unimpressed. By doing an impromptu demonstration STRYD was able to convince NYB to go for the implementation of the VoIP system.
Kamprad got the taste of his first success when he bought a new racing bike and a typewriter from his own earning by selling garden seeds (Elen, 2004, p.30). Then, at the age of seventeen Kamprad formed IKEA (Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd and Agunnaryd) from the profits of his business and the amount he received from his father (Elen, 2004, p.30). IKEA also has become famous because of Kamprad’s leadership style. In spite of being one of the wealthiest individual, he is very cautious about spending the money; for example, he flies economy, drives ten year old Volvo, takes subway to work, and wears reasonably priced cloths (Nelson & Quick, 2013, p.466). Kamprad
Musk was a risk taker and took an even bigger risk by launching a company his brother Kimbal called zip2 using $28,000 of their father’s money and funds from angel investor the two brothers took advantage of a growing new enterprise called the Internet. Is it made to take advantage of what the internet can offer and Musks’ Company developed online city guides for newspaper publishers. Before long it had won the contracts of some of the biggest players in the newspaper industry such as The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune. But there was tension, Musk wanted to be CEO, but the board stood firm against the move. In 1999 right before the dot com bubble was about to burst.
Anthony Horowitz was born on 1950 in Stanmore, Middlesex, England where he grew up with rich Jewish parents. Horowitz’s father had the most crucial job because he worked as a fixer for Harold Wilson who was a Prime Minister in the United Kingdom at that time. To be a “fixer” means that you would have to organize the money distribution of salaries and watch over suspicious bank frauds. Unfortunately, Anthony’s father went bankrupt and soon stored all the remaining cash in an unknown Swiss bank to which today Horowitz still tries to find. In elementary school Anthony attended Orley Farm in London and first of all it was an experience of pain and suffering for him.
After a falling out with his brother over power , he quits his job and is blacklisted from every printer in Boston. He later cites that quitting on his brother was a mistake, but young Ben Franklin carries on and moves to other cities to find work. After a few brief stints in New York, London, and Philadelphia, Franklin finally obtains a permanent job in Philadelphia managing a printing house. He later writes a pamphlet about his opinion on paper currency which leads him to become a printer for currency and other political documents. His profession in government printing provides him with his first respectable salary.