Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
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Nokia was once famous as a manufacturer of toilet paper.
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A full-time cashier at Costco makes about $49,000 annually. The average wage at Costco is nearly 20 dollars an hour and 89% of Costco employees are eligible for benefits.
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Duracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters using materials from its own waste.
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The upside-down ketchup bottle earned its inventor 13 million dollars.
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The CEO of Japan Airlines makes $90,000 a year, less than the pilots. During an interview, he said "We in Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses who pursue money first fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenet of business ethics."
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It has been scientifically proven that praise rather than criticism is the best way to help employees improve.
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