One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy.

Milton S. Hershey

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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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