Ted Tarner
Hamdi Ulukaya
Mark Zuckerberg
Life without Facebook would be inconceivable to most of us today. With more than a billion active users per day, Facebook still holds a leading position among social networks. In its 12-year long history, Facebook has constantly developed, so that it has become one of the most popular networks for sharing photographs, and it has numerous additional tools which have provided its users with the most interesting experience possible.
Akira Kurosawa
Kurosawa is undisputedly one of the most influential and original authors of Japanese and world cinematography. Kurosawa defined the unique theme of his creative work with the question “Why can’t people be happier together?”
Due to the complexity of his artistic personality with which he dominated over complex ranges of genres of dramatic structures, he was named “the Shakespeare of modern film” in the West, while in his native country he was nicknamed “the Emperor”.
Ferdinand Porsche
“I couldn’t find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.”
Ferdinand Porsche (Vratislavice, September 3,1875 - Wolfsburg, January 30,1951), Austrian automotive engineer. Born to a German family in Vratislavice (present-day Czech Republic) in former Austria-Hungary. Porsche is best known for the Volkswagen Beetle, his greatest invention. He died following a heart attack in Wolfsburg, in 1951. As an eighteen-year-old he used to sneak into university lectures. One of his greatest achievements, the VW Beetle, remains controversial because the Tatra Company considered that it was stolen from them and their expert, Porsche’s former colleague, Hans Ledwinka, who is credited with the construction of the engine made famous by the VW Beetle. Volkswagen later paid Tatra 3,000,000 German marks in compensation. [More]
Thomas Alva Edison
“To have a great idea, have a lot of them.” – Thomas Edison
In his youth, the self-taught Edison began to present his technical inventions. In Menlo Park in 1876, not far from New York, he founded the laboratory in which he worked until his death, the same laboratory in which Nikola Tesla worked in 1884 on improving dynamo machines. Edison’s most famous inventions are: the carbon microphone, megaphone, phonograph, writing machine, the telegraph machine which prints letters, quadruplex machine and simple cinematography constructions on the basis of the stroboscopic effect. An important invention was the light bulb with a carbon filament, which was used for lighting for several decades before the invention of the bulb with a metal filament. Edison is known as the fourth greatest inventor of all time, and he had 1093 patents at the American Patent bureau.
Sigmund Freud
Thomas Cook
Erno Rubik
Amancio Ortega
Bertie Charles Forbes
Ingvar Kamprad
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Carlos Slim Helú
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James & John Chivas
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Giorgio Armani
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