Oprah’s Big Break!

Oprah's lucky break came at 17 when a Nashville, Tennessee, radio station chose her as its entry in a local beauty pageant based on her spunk during a radio interview. "I was the only Negro in a pageant of all red­ haired girls, and it's the Miss Fire Prevention'...

I’d Like To Buy The World A Coke

One man's discard can be another man's creed. Robert Woodruff, who became president of Coca-Cola in 1923, was perfectly happy selling "sugared water," and stated that before he died that he wanted every man, women and child on earth to have tasted Coca Cola. When they...

YouTube & The Biebs!

Mother of cute Canadian teenager Justin Bieber uploaded a video to YouTube of him singing. Bieber's mother Pattie Mallette, who was underage at the time of giving birth, raised her son with the help of her mother and stepfather. Pattie worked a series of low-paying...
Start A Business, Any Business!

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...

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One Bad Picture Can Ruin Your Career!

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...

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