Category Archives: Success Stories

When Life Offers You a Rocket Ship – Get On

Sheryl Sandberg thought she was making a mistake. The year was 2001 and she had applied for a general manager of business units position. Sheryl began to doubt if there was even a job there at all. The small technology start-up didn’t even have “business” units so what was there to manage? Furthermore the position appeared to be several levels lower than… Read More »

Criticism

 I recently read an article about two individuals who started with nothing but eventually achieved success because they kept a positive attitude despite receiving a lot of criticism. Overcoming Criticism One day Jack Ma invited 24 of his friends to his house to discuss an online business idea that he had. After a 2 hour pitch 23 out of 24 people in… Read More »

Personal Finance Lessons from Bill Gates

Remember in Marvel’s The Avengers movie when Tony Stark (Iron Man) bragged about being a “genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist.“? Well I think Bill Gates is like the real life version of that 🙂 How many times have we heard negative connotations towards money like the following phrases? Money is the root of all evil, money corrupts, money can’t… Read More »