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The Wired Entrepreneur: The Early Years of Elon Musk
“I didn’t really expect to make any money,” he says of his first venture. “If I could make enough to cover the rent and buy some food that would be fine. As it turns out, it turned out to be quite valuable in the end.”

The Bug Boy: The Early Years of Pokemon’s Satoshi Tajiri
“When you're a kid and get your first bike, you want to go somewhere you've never been before,” says Satoshi Tajiri. “That's like Pokemon. Everybody shares the same experience, but everybody wants to take it someplace else. And you can do that.”

Lesson #3: Seize The Day
When Jobs was 17 years old, he read a quote that would stay with him forever: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.” Since then, he has looked himself in the mirror every morning and asked himself whether or not he would do the same thing that day if it were his last day alive. “Whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something,” he says.

Lesson #3: Time is an Entrepreneur’s Best Asset
“Time is your most important resource,” says Kamprad. “You can do so much in ten minutes. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good.”

Steve Jobs Cancer
When the billionaire entrepreneur and Apple founder was 17 years old, he recalls reading a quote that continues to make a lasting impression on him to this day: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It was a quote that would come in handy when Steve Jobs’ cancer was diagnosed in 2004.

Simon Cowell Bio
He has been a major player in the pop music industry in the United Kingdom since the 1970s, but it wasn’t until the first airing of American Idol on June 11, 2002 that the Simon Cowell bio became a matter of common knowledge throughout the U.S. Since that time, Cowell has gone on to produce various ventures that combine both the television and music industries, and he has become a worldwide celebrity in the process.

Lesson #2: It Takes Passion to Win the Fight
White might not have been a stellar student, but thanks to his achievements with the UFC, his high school was nevertheless proud of him. So much so, that they even invited him back to deliver the commencement address twenty years after his own graduation. “It was pretty cool,” said White. “If you would have asked me ten years ago if this is where I would have been in ten years, I would have laughed in your face.”

Playing to Win
Anything can happen - and it often does! One of the old clichés in professional athletics is that on any given day in any given city, one professional athletic team can beat another team. Their standings in the won-loss record at that moment don’t really matter. That’s equally true in individual competition when you have players who are skilled and determined to do their best.
Eliminate Ranges From Your Negotiating Vocabulary
I was fortunate that two of my early mentors were master dealmakers. They had different styles and approaches so I learned an incredible amount from each of them. Before I met them I’d never made an investment, acquired a company, or sold a company. In the past 17 years since I met them, I’ve done a ton of each.
Accelerating Referrals
If you want better referrals, stop talking demographics and start talking about the values that drive your and your customers success.
Overcome Fear - Step Into the Fear
Everyone experiences fear. The difference with successful people is that they do not let fear stop them from achieving their goals.
The business of childcare
Amber Jones was a recruitment consultant, but when she had her first child she was angered by the lack of quality childcare available so she decided to set up her own childcare recruitment business. It has now gone national.
Is ‘win at all cost’ the no 1 quality for great leaders
An interesting development in the Porsche vs Volkswagen drama has been the recent resignation of it’s CEO of 17 years, Wendelin Wiedeking. It could also be that Wiedeking was made to leave. It was a very sudden decision.
Fear of Marketing - How to Prepare for Marketing & Sales Without Feeling Like a Used Car Salesman
Do you have a fear of selling and marketing? Does it make you feel like a low-life used car salesman? This article will help you get the right ‘marketing mindset’ so you can focus on value for your customer and be a solutions provider.

The Joy of Survival
We need to celebrate when we feel joyful. Those are among life's precious moments that make our journey worthwhile.
I Wish I Knew When I was Starting my Business
I wish I knew that someone distinguished business for me when I was younger. It would have made my life much simpler. But, like with all things in life, the most valuable information arrives at exactly the right time we need it to. It is my intention that this story arrives for you at exactly the right time.
Presenting Presentations
So, You want presentations to look good? And what's wrong with blue backgrounds anyway?...
10 Retail Franchise Businesses You May Never Have Considered
Everyone knows the most popular retail establishments, and even the word retail often brings to mind days as a teenager, working in a chain store or a mall boutique. Mainstream retail stores are perfectly fine, but for those who want to start a more unique retail store, take a look at some of the retail businesses you may have never considered.

Do you have Renowned Customer Service?
Do your customers leave your store / take delivery of your products and think, "Wow, it is so nice to buy from this business!!" Is your business well known / famous for your customer service? Do your customers tell others about you? If not, you do not have renowned customer service. Face it. Your customers can buy the products and service you sell from a lot of different competitors. The only thing you really have to differentiate your business and yourself is your service.
Overcoming HIV and Building Her Community
Marie-Claire's story - One of Grameen Foundation’s first Village Phone Operators in Rwanda rises above the odds

2.2 Wasting opportunities: Working Out of Poverty
Youth unemployment
The Power of Intention
Perhaps one of the worst forms of multitasking is when we're trying to spend “quality” time with a loved one, while also trying to be “productive.” I'll never forget an experience I had years ago when I went to my daughter's soccer game on a day that I was feeling overwhelmed and behind. I had grabbed the mail on the way out the door. In my attempt to be efficient with my time, I was sorting through the mail while watching the game. Unfortunately, I was looking down when my daughter made her only goal of the game. I felt terrible when someone said, “Did you see that? Your daughter just made a goal!” Although she never knew, it was one of those moments I could never get back. (I could have read the mail anytime.)

Other 17 years Related Articles

5 Reasons Why You Need a Coach
Operating a small business successfully is not easy. Only 66% of new small businesses make it past the first two years, just 49% make it to 4 years, and barely 39% make it to 6 years. Why do they fail?
Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks FAQs
The owner of a registered copyright enjoys the ability of blocking the unauthorized copying or public performance of a work protected by copyright. Depending on how old a work is, whether or not copyright was renewed, when the work was published (if at all), and whether or not it is a work for hire, the U.S. copyright term for a work may be 28 years, 56 years, the life of the author plus 50 years, 75 years from the publication date, or 100 years from the date of creation. The reader will appreciate that these terms are much longer than the 17-year or 20-year term of a U.S. utility patent.
Lesson #2: It Takes Passion to Win the Fight
White might not have been a stellar student, but thanks to his achievements with the UFC, his high school was nevertheless proud of him. So much so, that they even invited him back to deliver the commencement address twenty years after his own graduation. “It was pretty cool,” said White. “If you would have asked me ten years ago if this is where I would have been in ten years, I would have laughed in your face.”

How to ensure your business becomes an asset not a liability
After ten years the plan was to retire: either Trevor could sell his business and generate a retirement fund, or pass the business onto his children with it paying him a yearly consultancy fee to see him through his twilight years. But after ten years neither was possible. Nobody would buy his business and his children perceived it to be a liability.

Is there a Place for Destiny in Your Life?
I recently read an article online that asked the question, "Where will you be in 25 years?" then invited me to first consider where I was 25 years ago as an way of introducing the role of destiny in our lives. I found the exercise interesting and worthwhile so I thought I'd share it with you. Where were you 25 years ago in 1983? Me, I was 35 years old. I'd graduated from veterinary college 9 years previously, and I had purchased my own veterinary clinic (a former out patient clinic of a larger hospital) for the rip roaring price of one dollar, which was about all the savings I had at the time. The rest of the purchase price, if memory serves some $26,000 was financed at the local bank. Not long after, the loan that started at 12% shot up to 19%.
Getting The Best Home Loans Using A Mortgage Broker
A mortgage broker can be of significant aid to those trying to receive the finest home loans to be equal to their exclusive situations. Over the years, in fact over the last few years, the plea for home loans has grown exponentially, and this has little connection with any rise in the birth rate 20 years ago.

Hedging Your Bets
Anyone can grow an international business today because of all the tools that are available to them. In the next five years commerce and communication are going to merge globally and many billionaires will be made. It will be up to you to be part of this new group of entrepreneurs and billionaires and make the next 10 years be the years that set you apart from the crowd.
Home Loans - Insights On How Working Together With A Brokerage Can Save You Time And Cash
A home loan broker is definitely of significant assistance to those attempting to find the very best mortgage loans to accommodate their personal situations. Through the years, the fact is that through the most current years, the interest in mortgage loans has increased tremendously, this also has not only to do with any kind of boost in birth rate 20 years ago.

THE MERITS OF SCREWING UP
Has there ever been a time when you were told you were a screw up? I have this idea that there is another way to look at this thing called life that may or may not be helpful to you. It is that life is comprised of one screw up after another. Yes, you heard me right! Oh, we don’t mean to but one way or another we do and in my case more times than you might imagine, especially earlier in my life. One of the biggest screw ups, if not the biggest I ever made was to spend too much of my time and too many years trying to please others so that they would like and accept me. This one monumental screw up that sat like a dark cloud over my head for so many years was the main reason for a whole series of screw ups that followed over the first thirty-five years of my life. Yes, you heard me right, 35 years!

Riding into Risk - Only In My Mind!
Many years later after having my children and long after the risk taking years – I re-learned to ride a motorcycle. Only this time the bike was 3 times the size and weighed in at about 487 lbs. I learned not only how to ride it safely by taking a course – but also learned how to lift it – in case I ever fell or dropped it. (which I did a few times!) I rode for four years before we moved and sold the bike. Three years went by before we decided to get another motorcycle.

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