Business mastermind:
Michael Dell -- driving force behind Dell's success
Steve Jobs -- driving force behind Apple's success
Howard Schultz -- driving force behind Starbucks' success
Herb Kelleher -- driving force behind Southwest Airlines' success
Stephen Spielberg -- most financially successful movie director of all time
Ray Ozzie -- i just think he's smart
Gabe Newell -- ditto
Thomas Edison -- ditto
Robert Heilbroner -- my favorite economics writer, first economics book I ever read
Robert Kiyosaki -- my favorite investing/entrepreneurship writer
Warren Buffet -- greatest value investor of all time
Peter Drucker -- i just think he's smart
W. Edwards Deming -- ditto. quality management and continuous improvement
Jay Abraham -- favorite marketing writer
Napoleon Hill -- wrote the first success book I ever read which got me into personal development
Philosophical/Spiritual mastermind:
Carl Jung
Ken Wilber
Immanuel Kant
Deepak Chopra
Alan Watts
Lao Tzu
Aurobindo
Wei Wu Wei
Raymond Smullyan
Douglas Hofstadter
Gerald Weinberg
Erwin Schrödinger
Fritjof Capra
Pao Chih
Rumi
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Originally Posted by MarvinMini If I could pick only two, I'd take Richard Dawkins and Jesus to sit on a table for a glass of wine or two. Bush and Bin Laden would also be inspiring. |
If I could only pick only two from the business-side it would be Michael Dell and Steve Jobs. They supposedly don't like each other.
The two I'd pick on the philosophical-side would be Jesus and Lao Tzu. It would be great to hear how each would reword their philosophies using modern-day language and modern-day metaphors. And I wonder where exactly they would disagree with each other.