Oprah Winfrey Quotes
Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable.
Winfrey, Oprah. Commencement Address. Spelman College, 20 May 2012, Atlanta, GA.
In the early 20th century, Heinz’s food company had remarkably high standards of cleanliness, health and safety. It as a time where his competition was not other food manufacturers but the vast fear of Americans that packaged food could not be trusted to be safe, much less healthy was what hampered sales. When Theodore Roosevelt introduced the concept of Federal food safety regulation, every major food company was vehemently opposed except for Heinz who claimed that the greatest beneficiary of Federal inspection would be the commercial food industry. He was right, but ironically Heinz was an example of the company that did not need Federal regulation to meet reasonable standards of public safety.
Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media,” she was the richest African American of the 20th century and North America's first black multi-billionaire, and she has been ranked the greatest black philanthropist in American history. By 2007, she was sometimes ranked as the most influential woman in the world.
