Cherokee Wisdom One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other [...]
Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007. The man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approximately. 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After 3 minutes a middle aged man noticed there was a musician [...]
Being ahead of your one’s time is difficult enough, but the experience can be especially frustrating for a woman surrounded by men who are stuck in the past. Still, Mary Kay Ash managed to work her way to the top rung of the career ladder – no small feat for a woman in the 1950′s. [...]
Charles Schulz was used to rejection. In high school, a teacher once asked him to do school drawings for the yearbook. When the yearbook came out, Schulz discovered that none of his drawings had made it in. When he asked his first love, a redheaded co-worker, to marry him, she turned him down after her [...]
His Il Giornale coffee shops were doing well, but Howard Schultz wanted to expand and grabbed the opportunity to purchase hos own roasting facility as well as another line of coffeehouses.When he pitched his idea to 242 potential investors, however, he received 218 rejections. Still, he managed to get enough money from the twenty-four willing [...]
