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Lesson #4: Live Big, Think Bigger
Fortune magazine recently named Combs one of the Most Influential Minorities. But, Combs has no interest in being a minority of any kind. “I admire Andre Harrell and Berry Gordy the most, the people who came up from the black community,” says Combs. “But the people that I'm going to be greater than are Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, and Clive Davis.”
Bad Boy on the Rise: Sean Combs Makes His Mark
With help from Arista Records founder Clive Davis, Combs was able to create his own music label, Bad Boy Entertainment. A few of the acts he had previously signed to Uptown, including Christopher Wallace (a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G.) and Craig Mack, signed on to Combs’ new company, allowing Combs to hit the ground running. In its first year, the young label released Mack’s Flava In Ya Ear, which proved to be a huge success. This was followed with albums by B.I.G., which also went on to become multi-platinum.

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Bad Boy on the Rise: Sean Combs Makes His Mark
With help from Arista Records founder Clive Davis, Combs was able to create his own music label, Bad Boy Entertainment. A few of the acts he had previously signed to Uptown, including Christopher Wallace (a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G.) and Craig Mack, signed on to Combs’ new company, allowing Combs to hit the ground running. In its first year, the young label released Mack’s Flava In Ya Ear, which proved to be a huge success. This was followed with albums by B.I.G., which also went on to become multi-platinum.

Lesson #4: Live Big, Think Bigger
Fortune magazine recently named Combs one of the Most Influential Minorities. But, Combs has no interest in being a minority of any kind. “I admire Andre Harrell and Berry Gordy the most, the people who came up from the black community,” says Combs. “But the people that I'm going to be greater than are Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, and Clive Davis.”
Lesson #2: Know Where You Want to Go, Then Worry about the Way
As soon as DeLuca heard the story about Mike Davis he began setting in stone his own goals for himself. Davis was the owner of a sandwich shop chain in New York who had begun from nothing and grown his operation in a string of 32 stores. From thereon out, DeLuca’s goal was to match that number.

Sales Tips: Save Your Gas
Forget high gas prices and driving haphazardly to various potential customers. Rick Davis with Building Leaders Inc. offers five sales tips for making the sale without ever leaving home.
Sales Tips: Laying the Groundwork
Looking to close a sale? First you've got to do the groundwork. Here are five sales tips from Rick Davis of Building Leaders, Inc. that will help you change potential customers into satisfied customers.
Selling Through the Tough Times
In this tips-oriented piece, Rick Davis, president of Strategic Sales in the Building Industry, explains how to rise to the situation and sell through tough times.

The Bristol Blue Dragons
Dragons Dens and Apprentice style situations are becoming more and more commonplace in business. Clive Hook looks at how he has used them, with great success.
The Coming U.S. Crackup
Clive Crook on something that has been on many people's minds lately, the sense of a coming U.S. crackup:
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