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A Fresh Face in the World: Mary Kay Ash is Born
“Most people live and die with their music still unplayed,” Mary Kay Ash once said. “They never dare to try.” Ash was not one of those people. Raised in a time when few women were in business, let alone successful in business, Ash broke down barriers on her rise up to creating a multi-billion dollar operation. Today, Mary Kay Cosmetics Inc. continues to be a leader in the industry, with outlets in over 30 countries that are staffed by 1.6 million employees.

Lesson #2: Don’t Take The Shortcut
“There are no shortcuts,” says Cuban. “Everyone tells you how they are going to be ‘special,’ but few do the work to get there. Do the work.”
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Lesson #5: Pride Can Power Your Company
“I’m a nationalist who believes huge opportunities are lost with every head office departure,” says Schwartz. “We need to make things easier for Canadian-based companies. And I’m not talking about a lower dollar. That just sells our labour cheap.”

The Kodak Man: How George Eastman Got His Start
“The manifest destiny of the Eastman Kodak Company is to be the largest manufacturer of photographic materials in the world,” said Eastman, “or go to pot.”

A Passion for Fashion: Wang Gets Down to Business
Wang’s work schedule as a design director for Ralph Lauren was far less hectic than it had been at Vogue, allowing her more time and freedom to engage in other pursuits. One of those pursuits just happened to be falling in love.

The Myth of the Management Myth
On a plane yesterday I read a truly awful new article in The Atlantic. Called "The Management Myth", it is nominally about how management theory is a waste, MBAs are dangerous, philosophy rules, and consultants are nasties.
How Long Till Marketing Works?
Whatever you do, don’t hold your breath while waiting for marketing to take affect. Instead, hold your horses because it’s not gonna happen instantly.
4-Hour Case Studies: Can You Redesign a Life in 48 Hours?
This past Monday, I gave a presentation at SXSW Interactive in Austin, TX titled The 4-Hour Workweek: Secrets of Doing More with Less in a Digital World. It was my first public presentation on the principles in the book. It ended up standing room only and has caused some waves, being mentioned in the SF Chronicle, Wired, and other media since.
For Sale: Most Expensive VC Home in Country
Here's one way to sidestep having to raise money from LPs: Sell your house for $76-million.

Wrestling, Ratings and Guerrilla Marketing
Guerilla marketing is a term that was coined by Jay Conrad Levinson in his book of 1984, Guerilla Marketing. This is a form of advertising and promotions that depends on the unconventional. Imagination is key, and a big budget isn’t always necessary. Entrepreneurs use this technique, and it’s considered to be non-traditional--just what entrepreneurs are known for being.
Seven Years of Bad Luck, or Bad Growth, or Something
From the latest Gary Shilling effort (as sent around by John Mauldin):
Four Business Partnering Ideas for Colossal Expansion
A partnership is a way to balance your strengths with someone else's in order to get more done - without losing your mind! Entrepreneurs as a whole tend to thrive in their creativity but don't enjoy managing their business. That's where a partner can come in handy. A partnership is often the leverage strategy a CEO chooses when its time to expand. There are some real tricks to having a partnership that works. I've seen many situations blow up because the keys to having a profitable partnership aren't in place.
Consulting Practice Tips: Delegate Weaknesses to Virtual Assistants
Do you know the business activities to focus on to build your consulting practice? Learn from my mistakes that cost me dearly when I was new, and where to put your time and effort for the maximum results. Part of the answer is doing what you do best, and finding the help you need for the rest.

Is There A Secret To Success?
Some entrepreneurs would have you believe that their success was something akin to manafest destiny as if it was just meant to be. Other would say that it was learned through the hard knocks of the business startup and growth process. As Luck Would Have It…Success Is Not A Science.
The Explanation Gap
Excellent communicators understand that an explanation gap typically results in an execution gap. Remember the old rumor mill game? Tell a phrase to the person next to you at a table. Your neighbor tells it to their neighbor. And so on. Before you know it, the phrase “Let’s wrap the various toys with vibrant colors to excite the recipients” turns into “Let’s rap serious tunes with vibing colors to recite to the residents.”

You Gotta Make a Comeback
No matter how bad the pain is, if you're willing to make an effort -- and at times it may require a fierce effort -- you can come back bigger, better and stronger. Lance Armstrong overcame incredible odds to become a seven-time Tour de France (the most prestigious race in cycling) champion.
How to overcome the fear of owning a business?
It’s a mixed feeling - both scary and exciting to own a business, especially when you are a first time business owner. The fear of failing can be overwhelming and in most cases prevents an individual from buying a business. However two things can help you overcome the fear and they are knowledge and self confidence. Sounds simple? It is simple. By the time you finish reading this article, you will know how to obtain the right information, ask the right questions, and how to think like an entrepreneur. All these actions will give you the self confidence you need to become a business owner.
Your Greatest Investment
The article "Your Greatest Investment" examines the need for self-growth and personal development as an alternative investment to the traditional financial markets during a recessionary economy.

Simple Gifts
Bill Clinton's latest book highlights the power of all people to make a world of difference.
Initiating Change
An article of 1221 words describing four simple steps on how to initiate positive change in your life.
Aspirations
Thought Propulsion for December, 2007
How to Green a Restaurant, pt. 2: Eco Serviceware, What Works
Welcome to part 2 of our restaurant greening guide. If you recall from part 1 of this series, I wrote about Ike’s Quarter Cafe, a restaurant that has found a great balance of quality food, sustainability in their facilities, and a wonderful experience. For those of you considering greening your restaurant, or just in search of ways to make eating a less impactful experience, this week we focus on that which goes around the food. As in the utensils, cups, bowls, plates, and even the foil.
Dreams Come True Series III: Treasure Vision Maps
Many of you have heard about treasure maps. If you have seen the DVD The Secret, then you have heard the story from John Assaraf about realizing his vision of a dream home. My clients use this tool very effectively. I call the process “treasure vision maps.” I would like to share a personal story with you.

Practice the art of restraint
Thanksgiving is right around the corner, along with holiday celebrations and the new year. This typically means stressful situations and possible heated family moments. Every day we are faced with similar situations that could easily bring out the worst in us. Learn ways to cope with stressful situations.

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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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