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Milton Hershey Entrepreneur
The entrepreneur I admired is Milton S. Hershey (the “Chocolate King”).He was an American confectioner and the founder of Hershey Chocolate Company.
He was a kind-hearted person.He established the Hershey Industrial School to help others less fortune.To benefit the industrial school,he even transferred majority of his assets into it.Furthermore,he also established the M.S. Hershey Foundation,Milton Hershey School,etc.
Besides,he was a determine person.After leaving a job as he realized that the job was not good match to him,he started to learn how to make candy for four years and finally he decided to started his first candy business in Philadelphia but he failed his first business.After his first failure,he still do not give up and took a


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