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  • Bezos, Jeff - Founder and chief executive of Amazon.com
  • Bidwell, Robert E. - Business management and turnaround specialist, author, professor
  • Branson, Richard - Founder and chairman of Virgin Group, Ltd.
  • Dell, Michael - Founder and chairman of Dell, Inc.
  • Evoy, Ken - President and CEO of SiteSell Inc., creator of Site Build It! web business system
  • Frezza, William A. - Founder and President of Wireless Computing Associates, General Partner in Adams Capital Management
  • Fylstra, Daniel H. - President of Frontline Systems, founder of VisiCorp
  • Hancock, John - Signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, president of the Second Continental Congress
  • Jones, Reginald G. - Founder of The Reggitainment Group, host of "Generation Now" radio program
  • Koch, David - Executive VP of Koch Industries, 1980 Libertarian Vice Presidential candidate
  • Mackey, John - Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Whole Foods Market, Inc.
  • Morris, Robert - Signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation and Constitution
  • Murdoch, Lachlan - Former Deputy Chief Operating Officer of News Corporation
  • Rodgers, T. J. - Co-founder and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor Corp.
  • Root, Wayne Allyn - Sports handicapper, co-founder, chairman and CEO of GWIN Inc.
  • Schmidt, Paul - President, Action Web Creations
  • Thiel, Peter A. - Co-founder and former CEO of PayPal
  • Tiemann, Michael - Co-founder of Cygnus Solutions; Vice President, Open Source Affairs for Red Hat Inc.
  • Turner, Ted - Founder of the Cable News Network
  • Williams, Evan - Creator of the Blogger weblog publishing service
  • Wohler, Will - President and founder of Wohler Technologies, Inc.
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Talkers versus doers, by Thomas Sowell, 9 Jun 2004
"Why can't the talkers leave the doers alone? Perhaps it is because that would leave the talkers on the sidelines, with their uselessness being painfully obvious to all, instead of being in the limelight and 'making a difference' — even if that difference is usually negative."
Talkers versus doers, Part II, by Thomas Sowell, 10 Jun 2004
"The fact that benefits have costs means that those who create these benefits are tempting targets for accusations from those who know how to dramatize the costs. ... most people have not been taught to weigh costs against benefits or to subject hot rhetoric to cold logic."
Cantillon for Laymen, by Karen De Coster, Mises.org Daily Article, 7 Jun 2006
Related Topics: Richard Cantillon
"... throughout the Essai, there are at least 110 separate references to the word 'entrepreneur' .... This term is thought to have been first used by Cantillon ... Cantillon visualizes the entrepreneur as being a risk-taker, dealing with uncertain returns in a market where prices and quantities are non-fixed and unknown."
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