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Remember that as you peruse Fortune’s recently published ranking of the “World’s Most Admired Companies” — the magazine’s annual ranking of corporate reputation.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 16, 2026

Admired by American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, Saura traced his criticism of bourgeois culture and use of fantasy and flashbacks to surrealist Luis Bunuel, a fellow native of the Aragon region and a close personal friend.

From Reuters • Feb. 10, 2023

Admired by Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa, Onetti, a Uruguayan who fled his country’s repressive regime in the 1970s, ushered Spanish-language fiction into the modern era.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2020

Admired if not universally loved, and feared if only by competitors who knew the extent of his acumen, Mehta reigned for years as one of the most powerful figures in book publishing.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2020

Admired, respected, and more experienced than many others, Washington was chosen to lead the Continental Army.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis