Who Are Your Heroes In Business?

[LostDutchman]

Who are the people who have motivated you?

Who do you emulate in your business?

I have mine; you have yours.

Who are they?

Let's go with four, in order of importance and when we get a suffucient number of replies, I'll tell you who mine are.

Let's have some fun, OK?

My $.02.

[snarlpill]

Off the top of my head just a few: Ray Kroc, Warren Buffet, Michael Bloomberg (His business not politics), and Steven Cohen of (the former?) SAC Capital.

[LostDutchman]

Off the top of my head just a few: Ray Kroc, Warren Buffet, Michael Bloomberg (His business not politics), and Steven Cohen of (the former?) SAC Capital.

Not bad at all and respectable!

Thank you for your input!

My $.02.



PS:  Bloomberg's politics suck raw eggs, so I am glad that we agree on that one!

[TrailingComet]

Jobs, the early Bill Gates, Jack Welch, Buffett, Bezos, Narayana Murthy of Infosys, Masayoshi Son etc

[LostDutchman]

Jobs, the early Bill Gates, Jack Welch, Buffett, Bezos, Narayana Murthy of Infosys, Masayoshi Son etc

Kewl and well considered!

Thank you for participating in my thread!

My $.02.

[hilariousandco]

I don't really have any favourites, but I always admire people who left school relatively early or didnt go to college or uni etc and just built their empires up off their own backs and business acumen and without any help from their rich parents or whatnot.

[Moonway99]

The ones that has achieved the best business results in their life like Warren Buffet, Larry Ellison, Bill Gates, Carlos Slim and other. But mostly the inventors like Bill Gates because the real money comes not from doing specific thing like owning high quality restaurant all around the world or owning a tourism business but from things that are totally new and are invented not for money purpose but for curiosity and desire to change something.

[1Referee]

Not really my heroes, but in a certain way I look up to : Lloyd Blankfein, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos.

But I respect all people who took a certain risk in their life to achieve something, I encourage all people to do so.

[walterbit]

Here in Spain interns earn 0€/month, and contracted workers earn 700-900€/month working from 9A.M. to 19A.M. This salary for contracted workers are offered in important companies too.

And in some companies interns work from 6 months, and when they end, they are contracted again in the same company as intern for other 6 months, giving the false hope to get contracted some day, so they have a worker from 1 year with 0€ cost.

Also in other companies, you are contracted for a 4h part-time work, and they compel to make 4 more extra hours every day not rewarded. If you don't do this 4 not payed extra hours, guess what happen...

So, as I don't have businnes heroes in my country, I will name "Silicon Valley" and the way they do businnes as my heroes.

[Hazir]

1. Hiroshi Yamauchi was the inventor of Nintendo 64, the Gamecube, and Pokeman.
2. Jack Odell was an English engineer who invented the Matchbox car for his daughter.
2. Jerry Yang co-founded Yahoo!

[MarketNeutral]

My business is investing, so I look at businessmen from this perspective.

I wouldn't call him a hero, but I've always admired Jim Rogers. He's a more astute investor than his former partner Soros, and he's far more likeable.

In terms of pure investing skills, Jesse Livermore is still in a class by himself. His book is timeless, too.

I particularly enjoy studying historical figures from a business perspective. Two of my favorites, for example, John Law and Christopher Columbus were incredible businessmen, aside from the other more notorious aspects of their personalities. Augustus, Trajan, Marcus Aurelius, and a few other Roman emperors are also a good study in various business philosophies.

I've also learned much from studying the business histories of Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, the early Rothschilds, the early Medicis, and the Founding Fathers of the United States.

[guybrushthreepwood]

The ones that has achieved the best business results in their life like Warren Buffet, Larry Ellison, Bill Gates, Carlos Slim and other. But mostly the inventors like Bill Gates because the real money comes not from doing specific thing like owning high quality restaurant all around the world or owning a tourism business but from things that are totally new and are invented not for money purpose but for curiosity and desire to change something.

What do you mean by achieved the best business results? Those seem to be some pretty mainstream and popular picks. I don't necessarily think people who earn the most amount of money are the best businessmen either, and I'm also not sure I'd call Gates much of an inventor. What did he even invent?

[LostDutchman]

The ones that has achieved the best business results in their life like Warren Buffet, Larry Ellison, Bill Gates, Carlos Slim and other. But mostly the inventors like Bill Gates because the real money comes not from doing specific thing like owning high quality restaurant all around the world or owning a tourism business but from things that are totally new and are invented not for money purpose but for curiosity and desire to change something.

What do you mean by achieved the best business results? Those seem to be some pretty mainstream and popular picks. I don't necessarily think people who earn the most amount of money are the best businessmen either, and I'm also not sure I'd call Gates much of an inventor. What did he even invent?

Yeah, Gates is a marketer de luxe!

My $.02.

[monbux]

I admire Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Gordon Moore. They are amazing people who never give up and built there empire through dedication and sweat.
-T

[Galio]

I dont really have a 4, but more like two that I get the most educated decisions on studying them.

1. Mark Cuban
2. Chamath Palihapitiya

[LostDutchman]

Henry Ford is one of mine.

[PrivacyIsImportant]

Chancellor Palpatine is my hero

[LostDutchman]

Chancellor Palpatine is my hero

Well, I see that you do not live in the real world!

[Fiora]

Chancellor Palpatine is my hero

A star wars character is your hero and business role model?  

So troll lol.

[KonstantinosM]

Elon Musk founder of Tesla, I'd love to work in one of his factories designing electric cars.


 

I'd love to design an all electric RV with smart glasses, a system that adds 95% alcohol to several stuff to make beverages, an inside dependable water supply, self inflating tires, futuristic doors and everything you need to have fun travelling on the road including many ways to generate electricity such as expandable solar arrays, turbines that can be dropped into a river and held with a rope to generate electricity and incredible efficiency with AC due to the smartglass.

Like an ultra high tech camper. I'd live in it. Also it would have a few small areas for dedicated hydroponics and a very primitive food printer/replicator.

This is the life for me, on the road, looking for adventure, i'm sure many others have that dream and a car like this could quickly become a lifestyle for the few who want something like this enough.

TLDR, like Elon Musk proved that an electric car can be fun and sexy and better then a gasoline vehicle I want to prove that an electric RV can excellent for traveling.