If Wal-Mart was classified as a country, it would be the 24th most productive country in the world.
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Colgate's first toothpaste came in a jar.
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The Shell Oil Company began as a novelty shop in London that sold sea shells.
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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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The upside-down ketchup bottle earned its inventor 13 million dollars.
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As of 2014, Apple has enough money to buy Facebook, or Netflix, Tesla, Twitter, Dropbox, Pandora, and Spotify combined - with $59 billion to spare!
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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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Samsung is also a full time weapons manufacturer.
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