This page contains a brief summary of each business man or woman's biography, whom we've quoted throughout this website. Enjoy.
Jim Collins Biography (James C. Collins, III): Business Author and Theorist. Famous for publishing several popular books on business theory and management like "Good to Great" and "Built to Last", and for writing for the Harvard Business Review.
Born 1958.
Walter Chrysler Biography (Walter Percy Chrysler): Chrysler Corporation Founder.
Famous for being the founder of the Chrysler Corporation and for amassing an important collection of art.
Born April 2, 1875, Kansas; died August 18, 1940.
Mahatma Gandhi Biography (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi): Indian Spiritual Leader and Activist, famous for being a spiritual leader and activist that gained a following because his ideas on peace and his peaceful civil disobedience that inspired Indians and those around the world.
Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 Porbandar, India; died January 30, 1948.
Bill Gates Biography (William Henry Gates III): Microsoft Founder. Famous for being the richest man in the world, a cofounder of the software company Microsoft, and for being one of the world's most giving philanthropists through his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill Gates retired as Microsoft CEO in 2008.
Born: October 28, 1955.
Steve Forbes Biography (Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Jr). Famous for Forbes business magazine, and being a candidate in the Presidential primaries in 1996 and 2000, and for appearing regularly on the television program "Forbes on Fox". Born July 18, 1947.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Famous German writer and polymath. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, pantheism, and science. His magnum opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part drama Faust. Born August 28, 1749; Died March 22, 1832.