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Profile on: Brigadier General (ret.) Robinson Risner, veteran pilot If you fall off a horse, as the old saying goes, the best thing you can do is dust yourself off and get back on before you lose your nerve. Few people realize the truth of this adage better than Brigadier General (ret.) Robinson Risner of Austin, Texas. As a veteran pilot of...
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Getting the Job Done Profile on: Jim Sattler, CEO of EMJ Corporation When Jim Sattler, CEO of...
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One, Two, Three Strikes Against Me Profile on: Anthony Munoz, NFL Hall of Fame 1998 Growing up in...
Profile: Daniel J. Arnold, President Road Ranger LLC By the time Dan Arnold was 33, he thought he had it made. After building up a $50 million dollar gas station and convenience store business from scratch in less than 10 years, he sold it for more cash than he though he’d ever be able to spend. But it didn’t take long before his new life...
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Profile on: S Truett Cathy: The Chick-fil-A success Story. Chick-fil-A is a fast food restaurant chain in the USA. It has over 1000 restaurants. Read Steps to Success - Part One S Truett Cathy’s four tenets Chick-fil-A’s expansion was governed by a small number of basic principles. In 1971 Truett articulated those principles...
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Profile: Lowell "Bud" Paxson, Chairman, Paxson Communications Corporation, PAX TV, Co-Founder of the Home Shopping Network In 1986, Lowell “Bud” Paxson was reshaping the world of direct marketing as we knew it. Having realized the value of broadcasting as a direct sales medium back in 1977, Paxson had built a successful business around selling...
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Profile: Spencer Tillman, successful sports broadcaster for CBS, former NFL player and captain of a Super Bowl team When the man who was about to end the life of Spencer Tillman’s mother entered her hospital room on January 23, 2002, the thirty people who were crammed around her bedside fell silent. All that could be heard was the rhythmic...
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Profile on: Jack Forney, Forney Industries For many children of entrepreneurs, inheriting their parents’ business is the last thing they want to do. Having watched their parents eat, breathe, and sleep the company throughout their childhood, all they want is something - anything - different. Jack Forney was no exception. Throughout the...
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Picture yourself on the verge of making your “big break.” You’ve worked toward it for years, sacrificing everything to make it. But suddenly right in the midst of negotiations for your fat new contract - which will bring you fame, money and everything else you’ve ever dreamed of - your phone stops ringing. And when it does finally ring, it’s...
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Profile on: Norma Becker, Vice President and Secretary of Econotech Ltd. We have been married for over 50 years. Ed and I met while going to university and were married at age 21 – that makes us over 75 years old. We now have two children and four grandchildren. The early years of our marriage were not happy years, but were filled with...
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