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Almost every kid has, at one time or another, eaten a Hershey chocolate bar. But do you know the founder of the chocolate empire, Milton Hershey, had tasted lots of failure before he ever enjoyed the flavor of success?
Milton S. Hershey's story began in southeastern Pennsylvania and you can't do it without noting the impact business failure had on it. At first, Milton had a front-row seat to his father Henry's endless entrepreneurial misfires (创业失败).
Henry Hershey's never paid off for himself, but it did for his son. In 1872 at age 14, Milton took a job in Pennsylvania. But shortly afterward, he moved from the ice cream section into the candy side of the business, and then became a candy maker.
In Philadelphia Milton started his first company, Spring Garden Confectionary Works. He came up with a soft, chewy caramel(焦糖) that proved to be a big hit. But Milton increasingly found it hard to deal with competition. In the year he turned 24, his company went belly-up (破产), and his businesses in Denver and New York all ended up in bankruptcy (破产). If failure is the best teacher, young Milton Hershey could argue that he had earned a doctorate (博士学位).
Some people in the same situation might have given up, changed their, or simply found a job working for somebody else. Not Milton Hershey. He was determined to be the success his father wasn't, and in the one business he loved more than any other. He went back to Lancaster and prepared to give it one more try by a new enterprise — the Lancaster Caramel Company. This time, Milton got it right. He became a respected businessman.
Though Milton bought the entire exhibit at the Columbian Exposition (哥伦比亚博览会) held in Chicago in 1893 that cocoa beans into candy bars and made his money, he decided that the future was in chocolate. The little town of Derry Church, where he opened his first chocolate factory in 1894, was and has been known as Hershey ever since.
Milton died at the age of 86, beloved by chocolate lovers around the world. He was to chocolate what Henry Ford was to automobiles and Steve Jobs was to computers. He revolutionized(彻底改变) a for the few into a treat for the masses.