Part one of term paper
I. Charles Lazarus - Biographical Information Charles Lazarus, one of several children, was born on October 4, 1923. The Lazarus family lived in an apartment above their shop in Washington D.C. His father bought old, broken bicycles, repaired and painted them, and then sold them for a profit. Charles spent a great deal of time in his fath ...

Part two of term paper
... could sell them at discounted prices. Charles often longed for his own store when he grew older. Lazarus was in his early twenties when he left the Army. He didn't want to go to college and knew only one thing: "I wanted to work and I wanted to make money." Because of his ambitiousness and hard work ethics, Charles decided to go into retailing. It was his father's example as well as his years spent in the bicycle shop that gave him much of his business training. II. The History ...