In the 1940s, an ice cream machine salesman from Chicago saw his sales decline across America. However, one restaurant in California was ordering more machines. He flew over to meet the customers and it changed his life. He helped the McDonald brothers to expand their business and later purchased it. Today, it is the largest fast-food restaurant chain by revenue. That man was Ray Kroc.The success story of McDonald's has not since been replicated. They are considere...

Poor and destitute, he grew up in Brooklyn, New York in the 1960s. His father sustained an injury at work and was laid off without health insurance. Getting by during his darkest days, he managed to get a basketball scholarship to Northern Michigan University. Driven to perform and harboring a talent for showmanship, he moved to Seattle and began selling coffee beans for Starbucks Coffee. It was not long after that he bought the company and the rest is history. This is the story of...

In an age long forgotten, Man and Lycan once coexisted beneath bloodstained skies-until the savage brutality of the Jackals plunged the realms into chaos. Feared as monsters and hunted as beasts, the Lycans were driven toward extinction by the Lord of Men himself.But one name would become legend.Ghan.Reviled as the most vicious and merciless Jackal to ever stalk the realms of Lycandom, Ghan is forced to confront the devastation his violence has infl...

His mother instilled in him the value of hard work and being the best at everything that he could be. As a child, he sold milk from the cow that his family owned. By age 7, he was selling newspapers. Naturally gregarious, he had an enthusiastic demeanor. After graduating from college, he worked at a JCPenney store where he had first-hand exposure to customer service. Shortly thereafter, he purchased a Ben Franklin retail store and that led him to create Walmart. This is the story o...

This booklet is intended primarily for people are gainfully employed and functioning relatively-well but have been diagnosed with a progressive medical condition. If this describes you, then spending a little time now to understand your financial safety nets can help you avoid major challenges in the future.

Framing Success Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Psychology of Success and Personal SuccessI'm sure you've found yourself thinking sometimes about how successful people achieve their success. You must be wondering how someone like Jeff Bezos did it. Did he do anything special or was it just pure luck? The thing is, almost all of us have an idea on what we want to start and we have a vision of ourselves as successful in the end but we have no idea on what happens in between and how we would g...

Transitioning from high school into college is a complex, daunting, yet fruitful experience. As a rising sophomore at Columbia University, Thomas Stewart provides a guide for any incoming freshman nervous about their futures. Through personal anecdotes, proven research, and professional opinions, this ebook serves to showcase and aid the experience of entering college for the first time.

In 1962, a Stanford University student wrote a paper on the possibility of having a Japanese shoe compete against the German brands that were selling really well at the time. Having a passion for running, he travelled to Japan to determine if it was at all possible. In the city of Kobe, he met with the owner of Onitsuka which was a shoe company. He made up a company name, pitched the owner right then, and struck a deal to distribute their shoes in the United States. This laid the f...

Psychology of Success: The Ultimate Guide to Understanding the Secrets of Success, Learn the Steps that Will Put You on the Road to Achieving Your Goals and Become SuccessfulI'm sure you've found yourself thinking sometimes about how successful people achieve their success. You must be wondering how someone like Jeff Bezos did it. Did he do anything special or was it just pure luck? The thing is, almost all of us have an idea on what we want to start and we have a vision of ourselv...

The remarkable debut from Thomas Stewart.In his debut collection, Real Boys, Thomas Stewart examines the death of his father and explores questions of grief, guilt, mental health, identity, sexuality and masculinity. As these poems unfold, a hallway of mirrors is created. Through the lens of father-son relationships, cinema, art and Welsh mythology are expanded and rethought. This collection grapples with what it means to be a father, a son and a self. Subverting the not...

This story took place in 1958 in Sand Mountain, Alabama, which was Raccoon Mountain as the locals called it. As it was such a compelling and inspirational story to be told, this story was written many years later on June 16 through 30 of 2010 in Fort Payne, Alabama.

This is the first book to examine the impact of blockchain technology on the business of sport. It introduces the fundamentals of blockchain and explores its current and prospective applications in sport, as well as the implications – both positive and negative – of blockchain for the future of the global sport industry.The book opens by explaining how blockchain works, assuming no prior knowledge on the part of the reader, and introduces the most important aspects of blockchain in...