Canada's top 100( B.C 5 businesses

-(Bc Hydro) Offers maternity leavetop-up benefits to employees who are new mothers(to 85% of salary for 17 weeks). Helps employees prepare for retirement with a genourous contributions to a defined benefit pension plan.

-(6S marketing inc.) ensure all employees can share in the company's success by making their share purchases and profit sharing plans available to everyone. -awards a finacial bonus($1500) to a employee who refer someone successfully hired by the company.

-(AirG INC.)-awards a finacial bonus ($1500) to a employee who refers someone successfully hired by the company. -Gives employees three weeks of paid vacation after their first year on the job.

-(club Intrawest) -Gives employees a generous discounts at affilated resort destinations across North America. -Offers a flexible health benefits plan, so employees can customize the coverage the receive.

-(Davis LLP) -encourcages ongoing employees eduction with tuition subsidies for courses at outside institutions. -Gives associate lawyer personell maternity leave top up payments(too 100% for 17 weeks)

Sam walton

-Sam walton born March 29 1918

-Sam was a businessman born KingFisher Oklahoma

Sam's best knowing for founding WAL-MART

-Sam joined the military but left it in 1945.

-Walton opened a store with a loan of $20,000 and his $5,000 that he saved from the army

- His first store was opened in July 2 1962 in Rogers Arkansas

-It was called Wal-mart discount city store.

-Growing up during the depression Walton had numerous amounts of chores to help make the families finacial needs.

-When Walton graduated he was voted ''Most versatile Boy''

-after high school sam decided to attend college.

-He attended the university of missouri.

-Sam Died April 5 1992

arnold swartzenegger

-arnold was born July 30 1947

-arnold began weight lifting at the age 15

-He was awarded the title of Mr . Universe at age 22

-Swartzenegger won the Mr.olympia a total of seven times.

-arnold gained worldwide fame as Hollywood action film icon.

-arnolds nicknames range from the ''governator'', ''Austrian Oak'', and ''Arnie''

-As a republican he was first elected on October 7 2003.

-arnold was sworn in November 17 2003

-Arnold is married to journalist Maria Shiver.

-Together they have four children

-Swartzenger admitted to use of steriods in 1977 saying '' steroids were helpful to me in maintaining muscle siZe while on a strict diet in prepartion for a contest

hilton hotels

-hilton hotels is a worldwide of full service hotels and resorts founded by conrad hilton

-As of 2008 there are 533 hilton branded hotels across the world

- in 1943 the hilton hotels was the first hotel to go from coast to coast.

-the original price for a night was 43$

-the hilton hotel was founded in 1919 he in cisco texas.

-The Us hilton hotels were reunited with the international properties after more than 40 years in feb 06, when united states based hiltons hotels corporations purchased the hotel division of U.K based hilton group.

-In 1954 Hilton hotels bought the statler hotel chain.

home depot

-the home depot was founded in 1978 by bernie marcus and Aruthur Blank

- the home depot idea was to build home improvement warehhouses larger than any of their competitors facilities.

-Investment banker ken langone helped marcus and blank to secure the necessary capital.

- In 1979 the first two stores, built in spaces leased from J.C Penny opened in Atlanta June 21

-In 2000, after the retirement of Marcus and Blank , Robert Nardelli was appointed chairman, president and ceo.

-Nardelli was replaced in 2007 by Frank Blake.

-Bernie and i founded (The home depot) with a special vision to create a company that would keep alive the values that were important to us

ray kroc mcdonalds

ray kroc worked at a chicago radio station.

-the mcdonald brothers used assembly line for mass production of lightning speed fast food

-the quality was good the price was low

-april 15 1955 the first mcdonalds was opened dest plains illinois.-

-at the end of 1956 kroc opened 15 successful mcdonalds restaurants

-kroc and the mcdonalds brothers never had a good relationship.

- mcdonalds went public by april 1965.

mike kind's last lecture

1. Fear of failure
- failure is the key
- someones failure could be your success

2. Eyes Wide Open

3. Copy Cat.
-IPOD.
-GOOGLE

4. Circle Of Influence.
-business
-father

5. Rocky
-Do not quit

6. Never Stop Learning
-always try and learn something about your craft

The one that i could apply to my life or the one that i have applied to my life is Rocky(never quit).
It applies to my life by when i was grade 11 and i got kicked out of school and i gave up. The position that it put me in by quitting was not fun and it made me a full year of school behind and im not able to graduate on time. I Learned that by quitting it only hurt me in the end .