I often hear people say that the business which is built on a basis of good will and good character to all, is the business which will ultimately succeed.
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Milton S. Hershey
Born in 1857 in Pennsylvania, Milton Hershey overcame three business failures before building a caramel empire, then pivoted to mass-producing milk chocolate — transforming a Swiss luxury into an affordable treat for ordinary Americans with the launch of the Hershey Bar in 1900. He used his profits to build a model company town and founded a boarding school for orphans, embedding philanthropy into the very structure of his enterprise.
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