In a successful growing business, it eats your time alive. Then later in life, you can provide for your family things that many others can’t have. But because you sacrificed, you’re then given the reward of freedom.” – Kevin O’Leary (a.k.a. Mr. Wonderful), Shark Tank
In this edition of This Week in Business History, Kelly Barner remembers key innovations, inventions, and firsts that took place between July 5th and the 9th, the important role that the secret, silent Mr. Charles Bergstresser played in the founding of Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal., why buying a set of soup can paintings ended up being an “intense chicken noodle” of an investment, and the advice and backstory of Shark Tank’s “Mr. Wonderful,” Kevin O’Leary.
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