Stone on stone.
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Ole Kirk Christiansen started a building boom on carpeted floors with Lego bricks. In over 80 years, his company has become an internationally successful toy company with over 9,000 employees.
The destitute village where Ole Kirk Christiansen was born on April 7, 1891, is located in the Jutland nowhere. There, where pragmatism, diligence and faith in God are unshakable. And a little stubbornness is part of life. Even as a twelve-year-old apprentice carpenter, Ole doesn't like to conform. He is supposed to make fences, ladders and ironing boards. But he prefers to make toys. Useless stuff, according to brother Kristian.
After the First World War and a few months of apprenticeship in Norway, Ole decides that in future no one should forbid...