Philip had cultivated a certain disdain for idealism. He had always had a passion for life, and the idealism he had come across seemed
Quotes
Jack Taylor, 89 year old tailor to the stars
I wouldn’t want to quit. What am I gonna do? Sleep for the first week, and then I’ll start walking around…What am I gonna
Dave Chang, Chef and proprietor of Noodle Bar retaurant in NYC
It would have been easy for him to go another route. He was flooded with offers. Everyone, not least his own customers, thought he
Robert Swanson, founder of Genentech
One of the stregnths of the United States said Swanson has been the quick transfer of technology from academe to industry. We do it
Ted Turner
Making money was always secondary to me. I was interested in the challenge and adventure of it all. I enjoy being an adrenaline junkie.
Andy Grove
Andris Grof was born in Budapest in 1936, survived both the Nazis and the Soviet crackdown on the 1956 Hungarian revolution. His escape to
Bill Gates
Gates told Playboy, ‘In terms of fast food and a deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I’m your man.’ And perhaps that
Harold Evans
The day that Genentech went public, a grad student at Cal Tech who had been paid in stock for some summer work suddenly found
J.D Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game, all right. I’ll admit
Harold Evans
McCormick’s biographer William T. Hutchinson writes: ‘Success to him did not mean the accumulation of money. In the many hundreds of his letters, profits