Walt Disney – An American entrepreneur

Walt Disney, an American entrepreneur, is so well known that hardly anyone the world over has not been affected in some way or another by his existence. His role in the entertainment industry is nothing short of legendary. Born Walter Elias Disney on December 5, 1901, he has been an animator, voice actor, film producer, director, screenwriter, international icon, and philanthropist. As a film producer, Walt Disney has received 22 Academy Awards with 59 nominations, receiving four awards in one year! Disney also received seven Emmy awards. He gave his name to the popular theme park resorts, in locations both domestically and [...]

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Posted by admin - January 24, 2012 at 11:22 pm

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Oprah Winfrey – The Richest Black Woman

Oprah Winfrey, formerly a poor black woman born of an unwed black mother, does not fit the prescription for a billion dollar entrepreneur extraordinaire, but that is exactly what she is. Her legendary story is based on her spirit, her desire and her persistence in the face of obstacles to succeed and move forward. Born on January 29, 1954, in she is best known for her self-titled, multi-award winning talk show, which was in syndication from 1986 to 2011. She is also an actress, producer, talk show host, philanthropist and media mogul. She was the first black billionaire and the [...]

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Posted by admin - January 24, 2012 at 10:21 pm

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Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook Founder: The Youngest Billionare in the World

Mark E. Zuckerman was born on May 14th, 1984 in White Plains, NY. Both of his parents are doctors. His mother is a psychiatrist and his father is a dentist. He has three sisters. Raised in the Jewish faith, he considers himself an atheist. An American computer programmer, he attended Harvard University. He is best known for creating the social networking program Facebook, for which a film was produced. In 2011, his estimated worth was $17.5 billion dollars. He was a Harvard student when he created the world famous popular Facebook, but his interest in computers started long before. Early [...]

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Posted by admin - January 23, 2012 at 3:24 am

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From Rags to Riches – the Story of Andrew Carnegie, Steel Magnate

Andrew Carnegie, Entrepreneur and Steel Magnate A Rags to Riches Success Story No one could say that there was a greater self-made man than Andrew Carnegie. He was born in Dunfermline, Scotland in 1835.  In 1848, he and his parents emigrated to America, where he found a job as an ordinary factory worker in a bobbin factory. Shortly after he became a messenger boy and progressed up the ranks of a telegraph company. He later created the Carnegie Steel Company, which was later joined together with Federal Steel Company and several other small steel companies to create U.S. Steel. After [...]

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Posted by Anastasia - January 1, 2012 at 3:09 pm

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Steve Jobs: The Man Behind the Apple’s Legacy

On the faithful day of February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California, a boy was born into the world. His name was the world-renounced Steve Jobs. He was born to graduate students from the University of Wisconsin. His parents, Abdufattah Jandali and Joanne Simpson, were unwed and decided to put him up for adoption. On the eve of his birth, his mother made a call to a lawyer, and referred him to a man named Paul Jobs. Before signing the adoption papers, Joanne Simpson hesitated of giving him up because she wanted Steve to be adopted by parents who both [...]

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Posted by Joanna - December 28, 2011 at 4:33 am

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Bill Gates’ Success

Bill Gates – The Richest man in the world! Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle in a family having rich business, political and community service background. His great-grandfather was a state legislator and a mayor, his grandfather was vice president of national bank and his father was a lawyer. Bill believed in achieving his goals through hard work. He also believes that if you are intelligent and know how to use your intelligence, you can reach your goals and targets. From his early days Bill was ambitious, competitive and intelligent. These qualities helped him to attain [...]

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Posted by admin - December 18, 2011 at 8:03 pm

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Success Vs Challenge

Challenge Need Do we really need challenge to achieve success in our lives? Well the answer for this question lies within each one of us and yes we all need the challenge part in order to take the success path, and it is not necessarily that you overcome all the challenges that face you in your journey to success, challenges are there to make you more enthusiastic about achieving your goals and reaching your distention. Also the challenges help us identify and clarify our visions in which by them we would reach the targeted goals in our lives and no [...]

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Posted by admin - May 18, 2010 at 5:16 pm

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Tips to Help You Achieve Success

1- Define your goals: the 1st step to achieve success in your life is to determine your goals; no success shall be achieved without having defined goals and targets. and a clear vision to reach your destination, all big dreams start with a small idea and accomplishing such a vision is not that hard as long you have the long term plan and you break it to small short term targets, so to be successful have vision, plan it, set goals, work hard and success is guaranteed t come in your way. 2- Be Patient: to be successful you have [...]

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Posted by admin - March 17, 2010 at 7:44 am

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Who Moved My Cheese by Dr Spencer Johnson

Recently I came across a nice and inspirational book called (Who Moved My Cheese) and I wanted to share with you my thoughts about the book and how amusing would it be for you to go and buy such a book. When I read this book it was and still an inspiration for me, the best thing about it, is the simplicity of the story that has the great meaning and value behind it, in another words it’s an inspiring and amazing way to handle change in your life and career and anything else. Who Moved My Cheese is a [...]

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Posted by admin - February 1, 2010 at 7:02 am

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Let your Brain Breath

I came today to give you a little tip that would be suitable for such season we are in, Holidays season. For sure I won’t be asking you to work hard or do double the effort you do normally but I’m asking you today my friends to just sit back and relax, look at the past year evaluate yourself and your performance if you feel good about what you have accomplished in this year that is about to leave us and actually it’s a whole decade that’s about to say good bye, then you deserve some time off to relax [...]

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Posted by admin - December 27, 2009 at 7:26 am

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