Think and Grow Rich!



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HENRY L. DOHERTY Henry Doherty (1870-1939) in organized and became president of Cities Services Company, a holding company for more than 100 public utilities and petroleum businesses with total assets exceeding $1 billion ($17 billion in today’s dollars).
He was a leader in the oil conservation movement and he held numerous patents for combustion procedures and equipment related to the manufactured gas industry.


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CYRUS H. K. CURTIS Cyrus H. K. Curtis (1850-1933) founded the magazine Tribune and Farmer in Philadephia in 1876 with his wife,
Louise Knapp Curtis, in charge of the women’s column. The latter was so popular that Curtis expanded it into Ladies’ Home Journal in He established the Curtis Publishing Company in 1890 and seven years later bought The Saturday Evening Post for the sum of With his marketing savvy, both magazines went onto become two of the biggest success stories in periodical history, with Ladies’ Home
Journal hitting one million in circulation by 1893 and The Saturday
Evening Post doing so in 1909.
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GEORGE EASTMAN George Eastman (1854-1932), whose handheld Kodak camera and $1 Brownie Camera for kids opened photography up to the masses, in 1924 gave away half his fortune,
about $75 million (more than $790 million today, for such institutions as the University of Rochester and Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He was the first large-scale manufacturer to use profit sharing as an employee benefit.
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JOHN W. DAVIS John W. Davis (1873-1955), like Napoleon Hill a
Virginian, served as Solicitor General of the United States,
Ambassador to Great Britain, and as an advisor to Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference. He was soundly beaten by Coolidge in a run for the Presidency. In 1952 he won a landmark Supreme Court case when he convinced the Court that President Harry Truman had exceeded his constitutional powers in seizing the steel mills.
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WILBUR WRIGHT Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) got the idea for the design of his and brother Orville’s famous aircraft after watching buzzards flying. Ashe watched the graceful arcs the birds made during flight, he suddenly realized that to fly successfully, an airplane must be capable of moving on three axes—banking, moving up and down, and steering right and left.
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