Day: May 26, 2017

By M.Farouk Radwan, MSc If you are serious about being successful in life then you can do nothing better than educating yourself about the inspirational stories of successful and famous people. Many people who want to achieve success in life, career or business fail to do it because they don’t know what it takes to…

By Roel Manarang Diosdado’s life story exhibits perseverance, hope, determination, and the power of self-belief. The son of a farmer in Cagayan, Diosdado would walk barefoot just to complete his high school education. His resilience made him a Magna Cum Laude graduate in electrical engineering. His excellence in the academe paved the way for Diosdado…

By Tony Hsieh (Business Plus Hachette Book Group, 2010) Tony Hsieh’s entrepreneurial spirit emerged when he was just nine years old and launched his first business — a worm farm. When that didn’t pan out, he moved on, undeterred, to businesses ranging from publishing a newsletter and selling it to classmates and running garage sales,…

By Matthew Bass At 24 years old, Anisa Telwar Kaicker was left without a job, a college degree or much self esteem when her mother’s business collapsed. Now 47, Kaicker is the founder of Atlanta-based Anisa International, which has $30 million in annual sales. She owns a factory in China that produces 22 million cosmetic brushes…

By Matthew Bass on March 26, 2013 “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a…

By Charlotte Alter Nine families raised children who all went on to extraordinary success. Here’s what they have in common: Every night for 20 years, Gino Rodriguez knelt beside his three daughters’ beds and whispered an incantation. As rats the size of footballs skittered along the floor of the basement apartment on the South Side of…