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Great Minds in Business

The 20th century jumped from the Industrial Revolution to the Information Age due to these visionary entrepreneurs. Read about what makes them great, and come back to see who will be added as the 21st century takes shape.

K

Will Keith Kellogg
Calvin Klein
Philip H. Knight
Ray Kroc
Sandra Kurtzig

L

Estee Lauder
Charles Lazarus
William Levitt
George Lucas
Henry Luce

M

J. Willard Marriott
Louis B. Mayer
William G. McGowan
Tom Monaghan
Akio Morita

O

David Ogilvy
Pierre Omidyar

P

Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Ross Perot
Ron Popeil

R

Leonard Riggio
Anita Roddick

S

David Sarnoff
Howard Schultz
Charles Schwab
Russell Simmons
Fred Smith
Martha Stewart

T

Ted Turner

V

Lillian Vernon

W

Madam C.J. Walker
Sam Walton
Thomas Watson Jr.
Leslie Wexner
Oprah Winfrey

Z

Mark Zuckerberg

A

Marc Andreessen
Desi Arnaz & Lucille Ball
Mary Kay Ash

B

Ian Ballantine
Burton Baskin & Irvine Robbins
Leon L. Bean
Jeff Bezos
Clarence Birdseye
Enid Bissett, Ida Rosenthal & William Rosenthal
S. Duncan Black & Alonzo G. Decker Sr.
Bernie Marcus & Arthur Blank
Richard Branson
Samuel Bronfman

C

Joseph R. “Rod” Canion
Steve Case
Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel
Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield

D

Michael Dell
Walter Elias Disney

F

David Filo & Jerry Yang
Eileen Ford
Henry Ford

G

Bill Gates
Dr. Charles M. Geschke & John E. Warnock
Amadeo Peter “A.P.” Giannini
Berry Gordy
Andrew S. Grove & Gordon E. Moore

H

Joyce Clyde Hall
Ruth Handler
William S. Harley, Arthur Davidson,
Walter Davidson & William Davidson
Hugh M. Hefner
William Hewlett & David Packard
Howard Hughes
H. Wayne Huizenga

J

Steve Jobs
John H. Johnson

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