Cornelius Vanderbilt
1800s · Business
Sail, steam and rail.
54 years on the water
Napoleon Bonaparte
1800s · War and state
Emperor of the French.
40,497 letters in thirty seven years
Colonel Harland Sanders
1900s · Food
Kentucky Fried Chicken.
62 years old at his first franchise
Thomas Edison
1800s · Science and invention
Light, power and sound.
6,000 plant materials tested for one filament
Albert Einstein
1900s · Science and invention
Relativity and light.
4 papers in 1905, around a full time job
Kobe Bryant
2000s · Sport
Five NBA titles.
4 a.m. his hour to train, in his own words
Isaac Newton
1600s · Science and invention
Motion, gravity and calculus.
20 years from the garden to the Principia
Phil Knight
1900s · Business
Nike.
16 years from the handshake to going public
Mike Tyson
1900s · Sport
Heavyweight champion at twenty.
20 youngest heavyweight champion ever
Nobody on the road there yet. More titans every day.