Every body can start a business but not
every one can grow their business to the point of becoming a business tycoon. Becoming
requires patience and perseverance. Those
with been patient enough to acquire all the necessary skills and knowledge
required to grow a business always end up as business tycoons. Although times
have changed, and what is obtainable in today’s business world is quite
different from what the 19th century business men used to do to
achieve success in their businesses, their wisdom and innovative skills could
still be relevant today.
Their perseverance,
tenacity and intelligent approach to business, if properly applied in today’s
dynamic and competitive business world will definitely produce tangible
results. Here is a list of 19th century most successful and innovative
business tycoons who made great impact in their different field of endeavor.
A company must be viewed not only as a portfolio of products and services, but a portfolio of competencies as well.
Gary Hamel
Nolan Bushnell in his Studio
Nolan
Key Bushnell
American
entrepreneur and founder of Atari ,Inc. Bushnell was born in 1943 in
Clearfield, Utah. After his graduation from the university of Utah with a
degree in electrical engineering, he worked for Ampex corporation from 1968 to
1971. It was when he was with Ntting associates that he developed the first
video arcade game, Computer Space.
Because
of his desire to establish and run his own business, Bushnell founded Atari in 1972 where he developed a ping-pong
arcade game called pong which eventually became a best seller in 1973. By the end of 1976, Atari made about $40
million in annual sales.
In
1977, he started the Chuck E. Cheese’ Pizza Time
Theatre. This was an idea that involves the combination of food, games, and
performing.
After
resigning from Atari, he bought the rights to Time Theater chain, which he
expanded from seven restaurants in 1979 to more than 200 in 1982. In spite of
this success, by late 1983 Pizza
Times was in
debt which and Bushnell was forced to file for bankruptcy.
Barely
two years later bounced back with the establishment of a toy and game company which he named Axlon. In 1986, he collaborated with Stephen Wozniak, a co-founder of Apple
computer ,Inc with the purpose of developing toy robots.
Like the legal judge, the tycoon depends on the
warders and hangman to obey his orders in utterly predictable conformity. So he
needs predictable conformists, without imagination,
independence, or pride.
Robert Heller
Philip Amour
Philip
Armour:
Philip
Danforth Amour was born in stockbridge, new York. He was part of Armour, plankington and
company a meat-packing firm where he later head in 1863. His brother Herman Ossian Armour owned a
grain business and Philip acquired a large share in the business. Because of
his high innovation in business, he
added a pork-packing plant to the company.
By
1875, he became the head of the two
companies which later merge as Amour
& company in 1870. It was Philip Armour who started the use of
refrigeration and he canning of meat. 17 years later he founded the Amour
Institute of Technology.
The rights and interests of the
laboring man will be protected and cared for, not by the labor agitators, but
by the Christian men to whom God in His infinite wisdom has given control of
the property interests of the country.
George Frederick Bae
Walter Chrysler with one of his cars
Walter Chrysler
Walter Chrysler (1875-1940),
American automobile manufacturer. Walter Percy Chrysler was born in Wamego,
Kansas, and educated in the public schools of Ellis, Kansas. He was a mechanic
with various railroads until 1910, when he joined the American Locomotive
Company. He was works manager of the Buick Motor Company (1912-16), president
of the company (1916-19), and vice president in charge of operations of the
General Motors Corp. (1919-20) into which Buick was incorporated. He helped in
the reorganization and operation of both the Willys-Overland and Maxwell Motor
companies (1920-24). The Chrysler Corporation was organized in 1925, with
Chrysler as president; he served as chairman of the board from 1935 until his
death. In 1928 Chrysler also acquired Dodge Brothers, an important manufacturer
of automobiles.
A business that makes nothing but
money is a poor kind of business.
Henry Ford
Walter Chrysler
Henry Luce
American editor and publisher introduced the concept of the weekly
newsmagazine. A graduate of Yale University and university of oxford Henry Luce
founded the newsmagazine Time, in
collaboration with his friend Briton Hadden in 1923 and he was the editor for
41 years.
In 1930 exactly 7 years
after the establishment of Time, a magazine which focuses on personalities, he
found Furtune a monthly magazine that focused on the critical analysis of
American business and Industry. Due to the successes he recorded with Time, and Fortune, he purchased Architectural
Forum. In 1936 he began Life,
a weekly news and photo magazine which
became an instant success. Although Life
was no longer in publication due to high cost in 1972, it was revived as a
monthly in 1978.
Other publications founded by Luce include House and Home a monthly in 1952 and Sports illustrated a weekly in 1954.
His communication empire
also included the 1930s radio and film documentary series The March of Time, radio and television programs.
'If everybody minded their own
business,' the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, 'the world would go round a deal
faster than it does.'
Lewis Carol
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