From the day he got a selling job with Du Pont at 17, Thomas Steele Nichols has had one battle cry: "What are we waiting for?" Nichols has never waited for anything. Though he never went to college, he became vice president of a Manhattan chemical company at 28, was made president of the old, established Mathieson Chemical Corp. four years ago at 38. Since then, Tom Nichols has more than tripled Mathieson's sales ($91 million last year) and done the same for earnings ($9,653,000).
Last week the man in a hurry announced...
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