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Entrepreneurs Who Turned Trade Skills into Businesses
Entrepreneurs Who Turned Trade Skills into Businesses
by curious_compiler  • 
3 in common: Vidal Sassoon, Josiah Wedgwood and 1 more
Before the company names came work with tools, materials and customers. These biographies connect practical trades with businesses: plumbing, shoemaking, baking, pottery, metalwork, hairdressing...
Business
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Entrepreneurs Who Built Companies Around Craftsmanship
Entrepreneurs Who Built Companies Around Craftsmanship
by list_wrangler  • 
2 in common: Josiah Wedgwood and Henry Royce
Craftsmanship is easy to claim and hard to run as a business: skilled work is slow, training takes years, and growth tempts owners to cut corners. This list compares people who built companies on...
Business
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People Who Used Their Fortunes to Preserve Cultural Heritage
People Who Used Their Fortunes to Preserve Cultural Heritage
by list_wrangler  • 
In common: Henry Ford
Restoring a palace, saving a painting for the nation, rescuing a historic garden or a tumbledown church: heritage work is expensive, and private fortunes have paid for a great deal of it. This...
Business
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Coaches Who Succeeded with Very Different Teams
Coaches Who Succeeded with Very Different Teams
by pitch_side  • 
In common: Alex Ferguson
Winning once can be a matter of inheriting the right players. Winning again with a different club, a different country, a different sex or a different sport shows a method that travels. This list...
Sports
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Founders Who Stayed Close to Product Design
Founders Who Stayed Close to Product Design
by curious_compiler  • 
2 in common: Henry Royce and Henry Ford
Plenty of founders are credited with designing everything their company sold. Fewer actually sat at the drawing board, the workbench or the cutting table once the business was large. This list...
Business
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LGBTQ Rights Campaigners with Lasting Legislative Impact
LGBTQ Rights Campaigners with Lasting Legislative Impact
by curious_compiler  • 
More from curious_compiler
Most LGBTQ legal change came through a long relay between campaigners, plaintiffs, lawyers and legislators: a petition or a test case, a court ruling, then a law that a later parliament could...
Politics
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Scientists Who Were Exceptional Public Communicators
Scientists Who Were Exceptional Public Communicators
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Michael Faraday
Explaining science well is a skill of its own, and it is rarer among working researchers than it should be. This list picks scientists with real research careers who also explained their fields...
People
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Scientists Whose Notebooks Reveal How Discovery Happens
Scientists Whose Notebooks Reveal How Discovery Happens
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Michael Faraday
Finished papers make discovery look tidy. Notebooks show the guesses, dead ends, crossings-out and conversations behind it. This list gathers scientists whose surviving notebooks, diaries and...
People
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Entrepreneurs Who Started Their Defining Business After Forty
Entrepreneurs Who Started Their Defining Business After Forty
by list_wrangler  • 
In common: Henry Royce
The founders here were at least forty when they started the business they are remembered for, and every age is checked against a documented founding date rather than a legend. Most had spent...
Business
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People Who Became Wealthy Through Industrial Manufacturing
People Who Became Wealthy Through Industrial Manufacturing
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Henry Ford
Factories have generated personal wealth through very different combinations of engineering, ownership, finance and scale. This selection moves from vehicles and heavy industry to chemicals...
Business
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People Whose Lives Make a Good Starting Point for Biography Readers
People Whose Lives Make a Good Starting Point for Biography Readers
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Josiah Wedgwood
A good first biography gives you a person to follow and a wider world to explore. These lives offer routes into science, art, public life and business through specific, researched books. The...
People
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Campaigners Who Made Public Information More Accessible
Campaigners Who Made Public Information More Accessible
by curious_compiler  • 
More from curious_compiler
A right to see government information means little if the records are locked in a filing cabinet, priced out of reach or published in a form nobody can use. This list is about the people who...
Politics
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Critics Who Help Readers Notice More
Critics Who Help Readers Notice More
by curious_compiler  • 
More from curious_compiler
The best critics do not just tell you what to think of a painting, film, building, dance or album; they teach you where to look and listen, so you notice more the next time without them. This list...
Arts & Design
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