Name:
Carl Barron - 1997
Title:
Chairman of the Board
Company:
Putnam Furniture Leasing Co. and Housing Options Unlimited
Location:
Cambridge, Mass.
Birthplace:
Cambridge, Mass., - 1916
Family: 5 children, 9 grandchildren, 1 great grandchild (soon)
College: Bowdoin College, Harvard Business School
First job outside of real estate: Putnam Furniture Leasing, 1939
First job in real estate or allied field: Same
What do you do now and what are you planning for the future? CEO and planning for the next century
Hobbies, likes: Reading, Oriental art, photography, writing, traveling
Key to success: To understand that “the only good deal is one where both parties are satisfied?”
If you were not successful in the business you are now in and were forced to choose another vocation, whether you are qualified or not, what would it be? I am successful and at age 81 have no plans to change.