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The second of three boys, Bill Berkley was born in 1945 in northern New Jersey, where the family lived first in an apartment and then in a modest house in West Orange.
Who is the ceo of w.r. berkleyBerkley’s father took over a family company that serviced vending machines; his mother also worked in the business part time. “Up to that point, not much was going well for me,” Bill says. “I was a smart kid, but difficult.
In school, I spent a lot of time in the principal’s office. I was always quick to apologize for my misdeeds, but one day the principal told me a story about pulling nails out of a piece of wood.
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You could pull the nails out, but they always left their mark. Empty apologies, he told me, did the same thing. They never erased what you had done. That story stuck with me, and I decided then to try to behave better in the future.”
When Berkley was in the fourth grade, his father’s business began to fail and he took a job with a company in Baltimore that manufactured products to be sold in vending machi