Walter Moreira Sales

Brazilian banker, politician and philanthropist (1912–2001)

Walter Moreira Sales built a career in business at a period when the rules of commerce were themselves changing.

The record lists Walter Moreira Sales as Brazilian banker, politician and philanthropist (1912–2001).

Walter Moreira Sales was born at Pouso Alegre in 1912. His recorded nationality is Brazil. He was educated at Law School, University of São Paulo.

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 banker, diplomat and entrepreneur.

Enterprises outlive their founders or they do not, and that is the whole test.

That the business was built from Brazil shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.

Walter Moreira Sales died in 2001, aged 89. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.

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