Chapter 7

1 Isadore Sharp, “The Unseen but Decisive Factor in Entrepreneurial Success,” address to the Canadian Club of Toronto, May 25, 2004, http://www.canadianclub.org/Libraries/Event_Transcripts/2905_pdf.sflb.ashx.

2 Ibid.

3 Isadore Sharp, “The Ultimate Host,” Time, September 21, 2007, http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804, 1663316_1684619_1694700,00.html.

4 Ibid.

5 Author interview.

6 Sharp, “The Unseen but Decisive Factor.”

7 Ibid.

8 Olive, No Guts, No Glory, 93.

9 David Olive, No Guts, No Glory: How Canada’s Greatest CEOs Built Their Empires (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson: 2000), 84.

10 Sharp, “The Ultimate Host.”

11 Ibid.

12 Leonard Brody and David Raffa, Everything I Needed to Know about Business … I Learned from a Canadian, ...

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