José Ortiz-Echagüe is remembered in business for decisions whose consequences outlived the decade that made them.
The record lists José Ortiz-Echagüe as Spanish entrepreneur, engineer, pilot and photographer (1886–1980).
José Ortiz-Echagüe was born at Guadalajara in 1886. His recorded nationality is Spain. He was educated at Academy of Military Engineering of Guadalajara.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the corporation became the dominant economic form, along with the antitrust politics that followed it.
He worked as photographer, engineer and aircraft pilot.
What a company leaves behind is usually infrastructure, habit and employment rather than a name.
Recognition followed: Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise (1966), Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (1963), Gold Medal of Work Merit (1959) and Gold Medal for Tourism Merit (1980).
That the business was built from Spain shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
José Ortiz-Echagüe died in 1980, aged 94. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise — 1966
- Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic — 1963
- Gold Medal of Work Merit — 1959
- Gold Medal for Tourism Merit — 1980
- Educated at Academy of Military Engineering of Guadalajara
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