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As Harrison said, his basic view didn’t change during the decades he ran railroads—service customers, control costs, utilize assets, don’t get anybody hurt, and recognize and develop people—and over time, he gained more confidence.

In his conceptualization of the Asian market, Jim Hill was both a prophet and a dreamer. He did foresee the remarkable evolution of the Pacific Rim–Southeast Asian economies that would come to fruition more than a half-century after his demise.

Trivers noted that evolution could create altruists in a species where individuals could remember their prior interactions with other individuals and then limit their current niceness to those who were likely to repay the favor. We humans are obviously just such a species. Trivers proposed that we evolved a set of moral emotions that make us play “