Start A Business, Any Business!
Richard Branson started a magazine in London and sold t-shirts and records by mail. He made a fortune and sold his record company for a billion dollars to start an airline - and then just about every other business known to man including health clubs, cell phone...
An Actor As Persistent As The Legend He Created!
1975, Stallone saw the Muhammad Ali - Chuck Wepner fight also known as the "Bayonne Bleeder". That match was like a flash of divine inspiration when for a brief moment Wepner knocked Ali to the canvas. That night Stallone went home, and after three days he had written...
One Bad Picture Can Ruin Your Career!
In 1972, actress Jane Fonda went on a controversial tour to North Vietnam. The trip would come to be the most infamous part of her activist career, and lead to her nickname "Hanoi Jane.". It was during that trip that a photograph was taken of her seated on an anti...
“Son, wouldn’t you rather have the guitar?”
The question was posed by the understandably concerned Gladys Presley after her 11-year-old son, Elvis, asked to get a .22-gauge rifle. He had first asked for a bicycle, but the strapped family couldn't afford it. Ultimately, they agreed on the six-string Kay guitar...