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To be abundantly clear, the trains did not run on time: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-15/stop-saying-mussolini-made-the-trains-run-on-time https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-15/stop-sayi... There's a difference between looking at the BEIC to figure out how it managed to exist this long and looking at it to find "some things to learn" from it and using it as a model for building a successful business.