Arthur Irving

"economy, an entrepreneur has to pull against gravity to succeed in my region. Yet that is precisely what K.C., Jim, Jack, and Arthur Irving, John Bragg, Harrison and Wallace McCain, among a few others, have been able to do. I thought that I owed it to one of them to write his"

"today it’s still just as good for us.” Another of K.C. Irving’s firm beliefs was in work, focus, work, and work some more. His son Arthur Irving told me that his father had no sense of time and had incredible energy. He could outwork and out- last people thirty years younger. Harrison McCain once observed that K.C. Irving had “great energy, wonderful energy. Never got tired.”"

"of gasoline, initially Primrose, and later Irving Oil. I once asked his son Arthur Irving why his father got into the oil and gas business. His answer: “Because he was selling automobiles and cars need oil and gas to run. Why give that business to someone else?” The logic does not end there – if it makes sense to sell oil and gasoline, then it also makes sense to build a refinery, and, if it makes sense to build a refinery, then it also makes sense to build ships to transport oil and gasoline from the refinery.8 That lesson would not be lost on Harrison McCain. K.C. Irving’s entrepreneurship skills were anchored in a few but"