admired

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Remember that as you peruse Fortune’s recently published ranking of the “World’s Most Admired Companies” — the magazine’s annual ranking of corporate reputation.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 16, 2026

Admired by American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, Saura traced his criticism of bourgeois culture and use of fantasy and flashbacks to surrealist Luis Bunuel, a fellow native of the Aragon region and a close personal friend.

From Reuters • Feb. 10, 2023

Adam Lashinsky is a former executive editor at Fortune magazine and the author of “Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired — and Secretive — Company Really Works.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2022

Admired by Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa, Onetti, a Uruguayan who fled his country’s repressive regime in the 1970s, ushered Spanish-language fiction into the modern era.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2020

Admired as a pathbreaker, Elizebeth is now regarded as a role model—a woman who excelled in a technical field through her courage, smarts, and grit.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield