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I also don`t idolize anyone but I do admire few and got inspired by them:

N R Narayanmurthy, Richard Branson, Donald Trump, Robin Sharma to name a few.

In my industry (High-Tech) I admire the following people (short list)

Steve Jobs CEO at apple -> For being a visionary and changing the world

Guy Kawasaki CEO at Garage -> For being a damn good speaker and a very pragmatic guy

Steven Wozniak (Designer of the Apple II) -> For being one of the smartest engineers of his generation

Ivan Sutherland -> For having created sketchpad, a program which was technically very impressive for his time

Paul Lutus -> For having written one of the best selling word processor, Apple Writer (for the Apple II) out from a Cottage in the middle of nowhere

Charles Simonyi -> For being an awesome programmer, who started as a starving student (he`s an immigrant from Hungary), he then worked at Xerox PARC, then Microsoft (the father of the revenue bomb strategies in the 80`s) and he recently went to space. The American dream is apparently not a feary tale

This list could be 4 pages long but will stop here for not polluting this thread too much

Not too sure about business idol but I do admire great speakers. Therefore, my list is:

Ken Blanchard - fantastic storyteller

Jack Welch - terrific and inspirational leader

Marcus Buckingham - love his strengths based views

Andrew

 

My business idols are Disney and Apple.

These businesses were started by visionaries who had enough strategic guts to stand on the edge of innovativeness and create something that still exists and stays close to what they imagined.

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I`m another individual that doesn`t really idolize anyone.  I would definately have to give props to Bill Gates for bringing the internet to what it is today!

I really admire this site also, it brings me alot of inspiration

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My idols are the key to my success after reading 2 or 3 good books on them, they inspired me and gave me an entire new look on how to approach being a business. My idols are:

Richard Branson - You don`t have to ask why he is one, just take a look at the business empire he has built from nothing!

Duncan Bannatyne - I admire everything about him and his businesses, he was brought into the World in Poverty, and had a vision although poor - he worked as hard as he could to build his empire.

Warren Buffett without question. He is someone we should all look up to when it comes to business and investing.

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