He fled apartheid South Africa at 26—then built a $13 billion Fortune 500 company. Here are his rules

Stanley Bergman grew up in a country that didn’t make sense to him. Born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, to Jewish parents who’d fled Nazi Germany in 1936, he was raised in a household where racism was explicitly condemned—and then walked each morning to a school segregated because of apartheid. He’d come home to the working-class suburb of South End, which Bergman describes as a “totally functional multicultural environment”—until 1963, when the government declared it a “whites-only” area, forced out friends and neighbors by race...