Conrad Hilton

(December 25, 1887 – January 3, 1979) was an American hotelier and founder of the Hilton Hotel chain.
He is the great-grandfather of celebrities Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton. One of Paris' younger brothers is named Conrad Hilton III.

Conrad Nicholson Hilton was born in Socorro County, New Mexico to Augustus Halvorson “Gus” Hilton (August 21, 1854 – January 19, 1919), a Norwegian; and Mary Genevieve Laufersweiler (December 3, 1861 – August 26, 1947), a German-American.Conrad's father Gus was the son of Halvor Nilsen Hilton and Karoline Hansdatter “Kari” Holum. Gus was born on the Hilton family farm near Kløfta in Ullensaker, Norway, where relatives still live. Gus emigrated to the United States in 1870. Conrad's mother was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, the daughter of a German-born merchant, Conrad Laufersweiler. Conrad's parents were married on February 12, 1885 in Fort Dodge.Conrad's siblings were:Felice A. Hilton (December 6, 1885 – February 12, 1968) Eva C. Hilton (December 29, 1889 – 1979) Carl H. Hilton (January 1892 – 1957) Julia Hilton (1895 – 1897) Rosemary J. Hilton (June 20, 1898 – November 27, 1995) August H. "Boy" Hilton (1901 – 1929) Helen A. Hilton (January 30, 1906 – February 22, 2003)

Conrad was educated at the New Mexico Military Institute, at St. Michael's College (now the College of Santa Fe), and at the New Mexico School of Mines (now New Mexico Tech). In his early twenties, he was a representative in the first legislature of the newly-formed State of New Mexico.Shortly after the United States entered World War I in 1917, Conrad Hilton enlisted in the U.S. Army and was sent to Officers' Training Command, Presidio of San Francisco. 2nd Lieutenant Hilton arrived in France, February 14, 1918. His unit the 304th Labor Battalion, saw limited combat. February 11, 1919, Conrad Hilton was discharged at Camp Dix, New Jersey. While Conrad was in the army, his father Gus was killed in a car accident.Conrad Hilton built a store in Soccoro, New Mexico, but he later moved to Texas.

He entered the hotel business by buying the Mobley Hotel in Cisco, Texas, in 1919. The first high rise hotel he had built was the El Paso Hilton (now the Plaza Hotel (El Paso)) , which opened on November 20, 1930. He formed the Hilton Hotel Corporation in 1946. The company expanded into credit cards, car rentals, and other travel services.Hilton had three wives, Mary Adelaide Barron (married 1925, divorced 1934), actress Zsa Zsa Gabor (married 1942, divorced 1946) and Mary Frances Kelly (married 1976 through his death in 1979).He and Barron had three sons:Conrad Nicholson Hilton, Jr. (1926–1969) (Elizabeth Taylor's first husband - married Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.) William Barron Hilton (born in 1927) Eric Michael Hilton (born in 1932) He and Zsa Zsa Gabor had one daughter, Constance Francesca Hilton (born in 1947), who is the only child born to any of the famous Gabor sisters.Conrad Hilton died on January 3, 1979, in Santa Monica, California at age 91 from natural causes.

He is interred at Calvary Hills Cemetery, in Dallas, Texas.His estate founded the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize. He left $250,000 to each of his surviving siblings and $10,000 to each of his nieces and nephews. However, Conrad's son Barron contested the will and won in 1988. The net worth of Barron and his descendants then jumped to over US$335 million.Conrad Hilton's autobiography, Be My Guest, was published in 1957 by Prentice Hall.

The billionaire mindset

by michael sharkey

The Billionaire mindset The skills and tools billionaires have that you must have to achieve financial abundance!
By Michael sharkey

Today more than any time in the history of the world it is possible to become a millionaire or even a billionaire if you learn the right skills, systems, and build a highly qualified team. In order to have the highest chance of reaching financial abundance need to develop the following.

1. Clarity - Eighty percent of success comes from being clear on who you are, what you believe in and what you want. 2. Competence - You can't climb to the next level on the ladder until you are excellent at what you do now. 3. Constraints - Eighty percent of all obstacles to success come from within. Find out what is constraining in you or your company and deal with it. 4. Concentration - The ability to focus on one thing single-mindedly and see it through until it's done takes more character than anything else. 5. Creativity - Flood your life with ideas from many sources. Creativity needs to be exercised like a muscle, if you don't use it you'll lose it. 6. Courage - Most in demand and least in supply, courage is the willingness to do the things you know are right. 7. Continuous learning - Read, at the very least, one book a week on business or ways to make money to keep you miles ahead of the competition. And just as you eat and bathe, organize your time so you spend 30 minutes a day exploring e-mail, sending messages, going through web sites, because like exercise, it's the only way you can keep on top of technology.
There are also powerful online and offline ways in which you can make money. The goal is to be always thinking about multiple sources of income. If you do this than when one source drops you still have other income sources to fall back on. A couple of examples of ways to make money that could lead you on the path to become financial free are...
Making money Online

There are many ways that you can make money online and offline. Here are a couple money making options to look into.....

1. Joint Ventures- This is where you find different websites and offer them a service or promise to promote each other's product online which the idea of sharing the profits 2. Affiliate Programs- If you have a website and you are willing to advertising on your site you can offer links that lead you back to the companies website where you can get paid a commission for every sale. 3. Selling Information- If you know something that you feel a lot of people don't know about you should sell the information online. Who knows there could be serious profits in the information you know. 4. Advertising site- You can offer advertising on your site and receive a commission for letting people put banners on your site. 5. Offer a service- Examples of services you can offer is web design, Internet service provider, and web hosting. 6. Marketing- You can market other products and service by writing a company a marketing strategy, Advertising, and Copywriting. 7. Online Auctions- One person's junk is another perso's treasure.
Making Money Offline There are many ways you can make money offline, but here are just a few options you can do from your home in a few hours a day.
1. Investing in real estate- Looking for real estate deals that include checking hud, and local city foreclosers! There are many no money down or low down payment ways that are cover in my money makers newsletters. But if you don't have a lot of time check at you local bank to see if they have in foreclosed houses. 2. Lien taxes- Using lien taxes can make investment returns of 18% to 50% percent! 3. Network Marketing- This is a powerful way to make residual income for years! 4. Licensing- Do you know some who has a great product. Sign a contract and connect them with the right people and you can make residual profit from it as long as the product is being sold . 5. Selling Information- Each person has a life story that could be worth millions. Why not write a book and let the whole world know about it and profit from it!
Passion Also another smart way to become a millionaire you must not forget about is to start a business doing your passion. Following your passion or doing something you're passionate about is a great way to make sure that the money will come. The reason why is because when you're passionate about something you never give up because you don'g it for the love rather than the money and so work becomes easier and you end up doing better. People who do what they are passionate about are happier and live happier lives and have better productivity. Who knows your passion may also inspire others to follow their passion. So be inspired and know that there are people out their who are doing what they love every day. All they had to do is make the decision to follow their dream and the rest was history!
Millionaire Weapons There are certain resources millionaires use to achieve their goals. These resources when used together can create a power way for people to achieve their goals. Here a the reveal.. secrets of millionaires......... 1. Leverage 2. Mentors 3. Teams 4. Networks 5. Infinite Networks 6. Skills and Tools 7. systems 8. Real estate 9. Building business 10. Coporation 11. Tax Control 12. Retirement Plan
I'll just mention a few below to give you a the tools to get started on you road to money more than you can ever need. The weapons above are powerful tools and when they are used correctly they can create powerful results in short periods of time.
Leverage
When trying to make your dreams come true is is important you use leverage. Here are some of the advantages of leverage.
1. Leverage equals speed. To make in goal come true in a minute you must master the power of leverage which is to use other peoples skills, talents,understandings to help you achieve a goal. Learn how to use other people's talents to get your dreams done. You'll find that you goals will get down a lot faster if you use this skill. 2. The longer the lever, the greater the impact. The Enlightened person knows that ease and speed are the new wants of life. So that's why more resources you use the easier and the faster things get done. Hence very long and strong levers. 3. Masters are using all five kinds of leverage in the world have better success. * OPM- Other people's money * OPE- Other people's experience * OPI- Other people's Ideas * OPT- Other people's time * OPW- Other People's Work 4. Millionaires are constantly looking for leverage. Millionaires constantly ask: How can I leverage this situation, this opportunity, this idea? To become an Enlightened One Minute Millionaire. Always ask yourself " Where is the leverage? " 5. There are six key forms of leverage that give you maximum leverage. * Mentors * Teams * Network * Infinite Networks * Tools and skills * Tools and skills * System
When you apply all these forms of leverage you become unstoppable.
Mentors
If you are to be successful it is important to you have a mentor. Here are something to know about mentoring.
1. Everyone successful person has mentors for their different needs. A mentor is a shortcut to perspective, proficiency, and patience. 2. Mentoring is powerful from of leverage . Drawing from your mentor's experience is the quickest, safest, and easiest way to climb the Millionaire Mountain. 3. Mentors are everywhere. Each person you meet can " accidentally" teach you something to advance your cause. 4. Mentors don't need to be people. Anything that causes you to change the course in your life - a life threatening disease, losing a job, reading a book, or an encounter with an animal can serve as a mentor. 5. Constanly seek out mentoring relationships. When you find yourself lacking in anything- an attitude, an awareness, a skill, a habit, a technique, or a strategy-seek a mentor to show you the shortcut. 6. Assemble a Dream Team of your favorite heroes and sheroes, present and past. Form an imaginary Council of light consisting of your selected leaders. Imagine being able to counsel with them as if they were communicating with you in person. 7. Set a goal to search out as least one millionaire a month. Request an audeience, either in person, by phone, or by email to pick your millionaire mentor brain. 8. The best kind of mentor is a transformational mentor. A transforming mentor who creates a context in which you experience enlightment.

Teams
1. You need a team to obtain your dreams because 2 minds always work better than one. 2. You must look for the hidden talents for your team because it's the l little things that make a difference. The most talents you find the less you have to personally do. 3. Make sure you establish the values of a team. These values will help guide you when trouble times arise. 4. Determine what your team's strengths and weakness are. 5. Make sure you have the right people doing the right job. 6. Always be looking for new member who may fit better into you dream team. 7. Make sure to set team goals and know where everyone stands on these goals.
I am currently working on a part 2 to this article that will include Networking, skills and tools, systems, and the other sources you need to know about, but if you are unable to wait for this article to be completed I high suggest check out my newsletter. Change your life today and find out how you can live a life of abundance!

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Michael Sharkey writes article at findyourinnergenius.com to empower people and show them that they are capable of having the life they want to live and be whoever they want to be. His goal is to try to empower or have a impact on at least one new person's life everyday. For more atricles and information on michael sharkey go to www.findyourinnergenius.com

Balance: A Mystic Ideal

By Edwin Spina

Last week, a friend of mine gave me a best-selling business book that forecast the rise of the right brain thinker and the demise of the left-brain thinker. Scientists have identified the right brain as the emotional, empathic, artistic side and the left-brain as the side of logic, intellect and language. The essence of the author's argument is that we are moving from the age of information, which was dominated by computer programmers, MBAs and accountants, into a new conceptual age, which will be dominated by artists, caregivers and designers.
To many people with an interest in personal and spiritual growth, this is old news. A variety of tapes and CDs have been on the market since the early 1980s that were designed to influence brain rhythms, so that you can, in the words of one marketer, "meditate more deeply than a Zen monk."
What is remarkable is that the underlying mystic principles are now being accepted and transmitted to the general business public!
Albert Einstein once said, "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."
While producing great technological advances, our reliance on left-brain thinking has not necessarily advanced our evolution as a species. From the mystic perspective, however, neither would switching to a world dominated by artists and caregivers.
In the world of the mystic all is one. This provides the answer as to which side of the brain we should use-both.
The overriding goal should be BALANCE. Those that will thrive in the emerging spiritual age will be whole-brainers. Using both sides of the brain in synchronization puts you in the proper state of mind so you can transcend it and attune with God. You will think more clearly and improve your coordination.
This is true no matter which side of your brain currently dominates. In the mystic's view, there is only one Creator. Your job as an artist is to attune with this One source of all creation and report back your "findings" via your work. Similarly, the engineer will never design anything of transcendent value by only relying on logic. You are selling yourself short by only relying on one dominant hemisphere.
The Kabalistic Tree of Life illustrates this principle. Tifereth, the sephira of beauty, represents the ideal balance between justice and mercy. Lying in the middle column, it is also the most direct path to the highest aspect of God.
The most direct method of attaining balance is through meditation. Meditators are taught to "center themselves." But meditation is not the only way. Any activity in which you feel pure joy, in which you lose yourself so completely that time passes without your conscious awareness, is one in which you are in balance. This can happen while you are walking, swimming, singing, dancing, playing a sport, communing with nature or making love.
A simple way to tell if you are "in synch" is by looking at a stereogram. These posters consist of a collection of black and white or colored dots. When the proper focus is attained, you are able to see a hidden picture within a picture. People that are too dominant in either their left or right brain are unable to see the picture. When your brain is synchronized you can see it. To view a text-based stereogram with a hidden word visit:

http://www.MysticWarrior.us/newsletter_image.html

What's important is that in times of stress or fear, the brain will automatically return to its dominant side. Accountants will become more left brained and artists will become more right brained, neither of which is suitable if your goal is to attune with God and express your God given gifts. Neither will help you evolve spiritually.
So the next time you're feeling frazzled and tense, pursue an activity that involves your whole mind and helps you connect with God. Turn off the TV and go for a walk, play with your children, or take 15 minutes to meditate. The influx of spirit into your being will not only reduce your anxiety, it will make the world a better place, as well.

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Ford Motor Company

At age 40, Ford, with 11 other investors and $28,000 in capital, incorporated the Ford Motor Company in 1903. In a newly-designed car, Ford drove an exhibition in which the car covered the distance of a mile on the ice of Lake St. Clair in 39.4 seconds, which was a new land speed record. Convinced by this success, the famous race driver Barney Oldfield, who named this new Ford model "999" in honor of a racing locomotive of the day, took the car around the country and thereby made the Ford brand known throughout the United States.

Ford was also one of the early backers of the Indianapolis 500.Ford astonished the world in 1914 by offering a $5 a day wage that more than doubled the rate of most of his workers. The move proved hugely profitable. Instead of constant turnover of employees, the best mechanics in Detroit flocked to Ford, bringing in their human capital and expertise, raising productivity, and lowering training costs. Ford called it 'wage motive.' The company's use of vertical integration also proved successful, as Ford built a gigantic factory that shipped in raw materials and shipped out finished automobiles.The Model TThe Model T was introduced on October 1, 1908. It had many important innovations--such as the steering wheel on the left, which every other company soon copied.

The entire engine and transmission were enclosed; the 4 cylinders were cast in a solid block; the suspension used two semi-elliptic springs. The car was very simple to drive, and--more important--easy and cheap to repair. It was so cheap at $825 in 1908 (the price fell every year) that by the 1920s a majority of American drivers learned to drive on the Model T, leaving fond memories for millions. Ford created a massive publicity machine in Detroit to ensure every newspaper carried stories and ads about the new product. Ford's network of local dealers made the car ubiquitous in virtually every city in North America. As independent dealers the franchises grew rich and publicized not just the Ford but the very concept of automobiling; local motor clubs sprang up to help new drivers and to explore the countryside.

Ford was always eager to sell to farmers, who looked on the vehicle as a commercial device to help their business. Sales skyrocketed--several years posted 100+% gains on the previous year. Always on the hunt for more efficiency and lower costs, in 1913 Ford introduced the moving assembly belts into his plants, which enabled an enormous increase in production. Sales passed 250,000 in 1914. Although Henry Ford is often credited with the idea, contemporary sources indicate that the concept and its development came from employees Clarence Avery, Peter E. Martin, Charles E. Sorensen, and C.H. Wills. (See Piquette Plant) By 1916, as the price dropped to $360 for the basic touring car, sales reached 472,000.

Rise to fame and career of Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart with mother Martha Kostyra and niece Sophie Herbert on the set of Martha Stewart Living Following Entertaining success Stewart released several more books under the Clarkson Potter publishing imprint, beginning with a book on hors d'oeuvres in 1984. During this time she also authored dozens of newspaper columns, magazine articles and other pieces on homemaking, and made several television appearances on programs such as The Oprah Winfrey Show.In 1990 she also signed with Time Publishing Ventures to develop a new magazine, Martha Stewart Living, for which Stewart served as editor in chief.

The first issue was released in late 1990 with an initial rate base of 250,000. Circulation would peak in 2002 at more than 2 million copies per issue. In 1993, she began a weekly half-hour service program based on her magazine, which was quickly expanded to a full hour, and later to a daily format, with half-hour episodes on weekends. Stewart also became a frequent contributor to CBS's The Early Show, and starred in several prime time holiday specials on the CBS network.On the cover of their May 1995 issue, New York Magazine declared her as "the definitive American woman of our time."

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How to Set Goals Like a Bill Gates

by: Mike Litman

Hope you're doing AWESOME and January is starting off GREAT for you!
I just got back from a seminar I spoke at in Texas this weekend and
I want to share with you a 'theme' I heard from 3 coaching clients I was able to get together with there.
What was so interesting to me is that ALL 3 of them said the EXACT same thing to me.
Let me make this point and then, right after, show you a powerful and SIMPLE success principle.
so tough.

I was scattered.
I was a procrastinator.
I tried to generate $10,0.00 a month before I ever ma.de $5,000.
I tried to generate $1,00.0,000 before I ever ear.ned $100,0.00.
I was trying to reach my goals, but never to pay my dues.
I had a ton of ideas, but no results.
I was going backwards faster than the famous track athlete Carl Lewis runs. It wasn't pretty.
But then things started to change.
Just like they have for these 3 coaching clients I met with at the seminar this weekend in Texas.
We've helped these 3 individuals change their lives and income - and let me share with you this one point we've held them ACCOUNTABLE on.
This ONE point I used to transform my finances and I STILL use it today.
Here's the 'principle':
Ready?

***MAKE your GOALS smaller.

"What Mike?"
Yes, you can have a big vision, but make your goals smaller.
"Can you explain Mike?"
Yes.
When I was mak.ing $5,000 a month, my goal next month was $6,500.
When I was ma.king $12,0.00, my next month's goal was $14,0.00.
And on and on.

The seminar I was at had about 500 people. I asked them: how many people set big goals and still weren't where they wanted to be?> 95% of the room raised their hands.
These 3 coaching clients I met with at the seminar all have MOMENTUM.
That's what happens when you have PROGRESS and you reach your goals. take a deep breath and take ONE step at a time.

Success is counterintuitive.

Sometimes to go faster, you need to go slower.
I bet if you make your goals 50% smaller, you'll have 100% more results. (we talk about this point in 'Greatness University' this month)
This is your year. Try this for 60 days and watch what happens.
Here are the results for these 3 coaching clients.
Two have doubled their inco.me.
One's income is up 25%.
All three have seen their confidence and happiness skyrocket.
2005 is your year to unleash YOUR greatness!

Talk to you soon.
Mike Litman http://www.mikelitman.com/ www.greatnessheldhostage.com

About The Author
Mike Litman is the co-author of the #1 Best-selling book Conversations with Millionaires. Over the last 3 years, Mike has unleashed the greatness of tens of thousands of people worldwide. Networking Times Magazine called Mike Litman ‘a modern day Napoleon Hill’ and at the age of 30 he’s already shared the stage with well-known speakers such as Mark Victor Hansen and Bob Proctor.

Bill Gates, You Clever Fox

by:
David Leonhardt

Dear Bill Gates.

You did it. You casually left a live grenade at the Grand Charity Gala and walked out of the room to see if anybody, especially Google, will notice.

Once again, you have created an innovation in marketing that is poised to take the world by storm. What I love about it is how you have just tossed it out into the public for all to see, and yet nobody seems to be noticing it.
Flitting from forum to forum, everyone is talking about your new MSN beta search engine ( http://beta.search.msn.com/ ), but nobody seems to have discovered the secret marketing bomb you left ticking there.
Google sure was clever with its PageRank gimmick. In fairness, PageRank is not just a gimmick, but it was marketed as much more than it is -- the big ka-boom that sets Google apart, despite being only a small part of its algorithm.

But your ka-boom will be bigger. You have actually given searchers like me control over my own rankings. While other search engines are talking about "personalized search", you've given us the levers to incrementally change rankings in searches themselves.
You are probably aware that webmasters are kicking the tires on your new search engine to see how high they rank. Those who are more adventuresome or who earn their living understanding (or trying to understand) search engines are taking some of your special features for a spin. Most of those features are fairly mundane. Like "links to" (although it might just be the most comprehensive listing on the Internet – hint to webmasters) and "language".
But what's this at the very bottom, almost falling off my screen?

Results Ranking.

Hey, this is cool. I can control the results myself. I can give more weight to recently-updated sites, which is great when I am following a breaking story (After the America's Cup, I do not want to find all the pre-race predictions, for example.). Or I can weight the results in favor of static pages if I am trying to find again the health information I had read last time my daughter broke out in blue and green splotches all over her body.
And you let me decide whether to weigh heavily exact matches, if I know exactly what I am looking for, or approximate matches if I know only that the itchy splotches come from some rare Polar virus transmitted by stampeding trans-Atlantic penguins.
I even get to choose to boost rankings for popular sites or, if I'm feeling like a rebel, for less popular sites. Yes, you have even appealed to my deepest psychological mood swings. This is really cool.

But what really counts is this: I control MSN!
I can just imagine the TV ads you have already planned: The ad character (a student, a construction worker, a nurse?) says, "Move over Bill Gates, I'm in charge now." The voiceover says, "Search MSN" PageRank will taste like yesterday's chewing gum.
I decided to find out if I really do control MSN, using one of my client sites. I chose Dotcom-Monitor Web Site Monitoring ( http://www.dotcom-monitor.com ) and the search term "website monitoring". As I write, the site sits at #3 for that search term.

I turbo charged the popularity lever to 100%. Whoa. Dotcom-Monitor lost a spot. What does that mean? Somebody who does not rank as highly as my client got a boost by weighing link popularity higher (and, by extension, on-page content lower).
This tells me that my client's on-page content is in good shape. It also tells me which competitor has the best backlinks to check out.
PageRank was an effective gimmick for wrapping webmasters and SEO consultants around Google's fingers. But this results ranking thingy could wrap both the public and webmasters around MSN's fingers.

Just one word of advice, Bill. Results Ranking? Is that the catchiest moniker you could give it?
Bill, you are to be congratulated for devising such a clever marketing tool, and for purposefully leaving it right out in the open like a live grenade without even a hint that it is there. That is what you did, isn't it? You did do it on purpose, didn't you?
If not, please let me know, so I can send you my invoice for your next great marketing idea.

About The Author
David Leonhardt is an SEO consultant http://www.seo-writer.net/freelance/seo-consultant.html and a website marketing consultant: http://www.seo-writer.net Pick up a copy of his SEO e-book: http://www.thehappyguy.com/SEO.html Info@thehappyguy.com

Bill Gates As A Small Business Entrepreneur

Secret Strategies Of The Gurus: Guru 1 -

by: Rick Tanzo

Introduction:
Strategies are strategies. Dismiss for a moment from your mind what some people are saying about Bill Gates's offensive practices he used to transform himself from a small business entrepreneur to a titan in the business world. There are yet honest-to-goodness strategies we can glean from his sleeves. We can study, learn from them and possibly apply them in our own home based business. Upon this premise that this article was written.

Strategy of Bill Gates - Have a Vision:
At the outset, I will lay down the results of my research on one secret strategy of Bill Gates. He used the same strategy to jump-start his small business to today's business behemoth. Based on my research, the strategy of Bill Gates is grounded upon the following:
"Have a VISION of what you want to achieve and hold on to that vision come wrath or high water."
His vision was:

"A Personal Computer on every desk."
By the way, I didn't want to use the grammatically correct expression "come hell or high water" - for personal reason - so excuse my grammatical preference. Anyway, let's go back to our subject. When you have a vision, you can make the impossible possible.
Almost everybody is familiar about how once upon a time the small business entrepreneur Bill Gates secured mighty IBM's contract to supply the latter's operating system. When he was negotiating with the IBM people, he had no operating system as yet. He was able to buy a Disk Operating System or DOS for $50 thousand. In the end, he got the contract. Why?
Bill Gates was guided by his vision - that every desk all over the world should have a computer on it. This vision enabled him to provide IBM with a DOS operating system and have control over it including to whom he wanted it sold to.

Beginning Entrepreneur:
Before he became an entrepreneur, Bill Gates had nurtured the vision that software will one day rule the world. During high school he spent many late nights with friend Paul Allen tinkering with the school's computer system.
He dropped out of college after completing his junior year at Harvard. Instead, he and his bosom friend Paul Allen set up a small business - a software company - in far away New Mexico. This move was in accordance with his vision.
His vision became clearer as he moved from a total newbie to one with a small business to keep. His vision was clothed in clearer terms, as he negotiated the DOS deal with IBM.

Better late than never:
Bill Gates's company ultimately became the leader in the software arena. During the first half of the 1990's - 1993 to be exact - he was among the last of the software titans to acknowledge the future significance of the Internet.
But once he did realize that indeed Internet was the wave of the future, he had the tenacity to reshape his vision. His vision retained its old flavor - that is, software dominance in commerce, industry and in every field. It was rehashed in his own words as follows:
"In the years ahead, the Internet will have an even more profound effect on the way we work, live and learn … this technology will be one of the key cultural and economic forces of the early 21st century."
At this moment in time, Bill Gates is guided by the vision that the Internet is the wave of the present and the foreseeable future.

Lessons Learned:
You can learn from Bill Gates by having your own vision for your small business. Lay down this vision in your mind. Then put it into writing. Read your vision everyday while at work in your small corner of the house. Your vision could be as short-term as the following:
"To make my web site land within the top five of Google when people search for the keywords 'home based business,'" or
"$200,000 earning this year from Google Adsense,"or
"To enrich the content of my web site using the theme 'scrap book making.'"
Do not limit yourself to short-term vision. Aim for the long-term. A five to ten years period would suffice. Technology may change but your vision will essentially be the same. You may refine it if deemed necessary, like incorporating the effect of technological changes - as Bill Gates did.

Your Share of the Pie:
Everybody - from Bill Gates down to your netpreneur friend - has recognized the tremendous role of the Internet in business developments. Some of the more immediate pressing concerns you should consider at this stage concerning your home based business are the following:
- General preference for digital transactions by clients. For example, as a beginning Internet entrepreneur you should meet your clients' demands who favor the use of online payment system.

At this juncture, I would like to refer you to my web site at
InternetMarketingLearningCenter.com which offers free learning stuff on Internet marketing and home based business. One category being tackled in the web site is the online payment system. You may read online news and keep yourself abreast of the best software companion for your small business.
- Choose products that are preferred by people at this time when the Internet is dominating people's lives. It has been determined that information products and web shopping are favored by most consumers. Information products include your very own ebooks and "how-to" manuals.

- Make it your aim that your products are cheap, very useful, and the best among the rest of competing products. This applies most especially to shopping products. For your own digital products, you have the advantage of pricing them according to your own estimation.
You as the author of your own digital product determines the price level. It is no wonder why gurus like Jay Abraham, Jim Daniels and the late Corey Rudl have become so wealthy from selling their own digital pieces.
As for these three, they will be among the titans that we will tackle in future issues of this series.

About The Author
Rick Tanzo is the webmaster of the InternetMarketingLearningCenter.com. Visit his web site today to discover the simple, fast and easy way to learn Internet marketing and home based business. The site offers free downloads and guide to some of the best deals online. www.internetmarketinglearningcenter.com.
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5 Lessons Bill Gates Could Teach You

Master Resale Rights:

by: Mike Adams

Smart Internet marketers know that buying master resale rights is a shortcut to getting products on the market. But did you know that Bill Gates and the Microsoft empire were built from purchasing master resale rights?
That's right - the richest man in the world bought the rights to DOS, the operating system that began the Microsoft empire.

There are 5 important lessons Bill Gates could teach you about master resale rights.

1. Find a hungry market with a burning need and fill it.

Bill Gates read about the Altair 8800 computer in Popular Science in 1975. Realizing Altair needed a simple programming language to make the computer popular, Gates sold a version of BASIC to Altair before it was even written. Then Gates worked night and day with Paul Allen and Monte Davidoff to develop it. Microsoft was born.
In 1980, IBM created the desktop PC - but they didn't have an operating system. Gates saw a burning need waiting to be filled, and learned a new lesson:

2. You don't have to create a product to fill a need if you can buy the master resale rights instead.

IBM approached Bill Gates to create an operating system for the PC. Gates initially recommended they contact Digital Research to purchase their CP/M operating system. But those negotiations failed, and IBM came back to Bill Gates.
Gates learned that Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products had developed a clone of CP/M called QDOS. Microsoft bought the rights for just $56,000.
Of course you don't have to invest $56,000 to get rights worth selling. Often you can buy master resale rights for $100, $50, even $10 or $20. You can even join resale rights membership sites and get thousands of dollars worth of products for a small monthly fee. Sometimes you can even find master resale rights products for free!
Why so cheap? Sometimes the products aren't very good, but often they're great products that weren't marketed well. Not seeing the opportunity, people sell their work for almost nothing.
Smart marketers know that sometimes you can just rename a product or change the marketing and have a hit. This is where Bill Gates could teach us the third lesson:

3. Repackage or rebrand, change the marketing approach, and build your own brand.

QDOS stood for "Quick and Dirty Operating System." IBM might have bought it even with a name like that, but being a savvy marketer, Gates decided to rebrand it. He dubbed it "PC-DOS," for "PC Disk Operating System." He targeted it squarely at IBM - and they bought it, big time.
When PC clones hit the market, Gates saw another hungry market with a burning need. Microsoft quickly rebranded DOS, dubbing it "MS-DOS" for "Microsoft Disk Operating System," thus building the Microsoft brand at the same time. The rest is history.
Resale rights products are often widely available. If you do the same thing as everyone else, why should someone buy the product from you? But if you take the time to repackage or rebrand the resale rights where permitted, you will have a unique product you can market to a hungry audience with a burning need. Because the next lesson we can learn from Bill Gates is:

4. Just because someone else didn't become a billionaire with the master resale rights for a product doesn't mean you can't.

Use your brain and figure out how to do things better.
Success in any business is often as dependent on intelligence, motivation, and marketing as it is on the product itself.
Others created the BASIC programming language, but Bill Gates repackaged it and sold it to Altair. Digital Research had a perfect operating system for the PC, but they missed out. Tim Paterson created the DOS operating system that would run every PC in the world. But he sold it to Microsoft for $56,000. Bill Gates is now worth an estimated $51 billion. Forbes magazine says he is the richest man in the world.
Realizing he had a hungry market with a burning need, Gates saw opportunities that others missed, took products that were relative failures, and built a multi-billion dollar empire.
Not everyone is Bill Gates, but don't you think we all have opportunities that we either take or miss? And don't you think we sometimes settle for less than we could have?
That brings us to the final lesson that Bill Gates could teach you about master resale rights:

5. Don't sell your life for almost nothing.

Bill Gates took opportunities that others had and did something with them. Do you think Bill Gates would ever sell the master resale rights to all of the Microsoft products for $10?
Of course not! Yet you will often see people selling master resale rights to great products for less than you'd spend for dinner! They don't realize they are selling their life for almost nothing.
You can't go far on the Internet without someone promising you that you can make a million dollars by selling their product. Do you realize how many $10 products you would have to sell every day to make a million dollars a year? 274! Each and every day, 365 days a year. Wouldn't it be easier to sell 27.4 copies of a product every day for $100 each? Or a $30 monthly membership to a site 8 times a day?

You're not going to see Microsoft selling the next version of Windows for $10 each, and you shouldn't sell yourself short either.
Don't drop your price. Build your marketing skills instead. Find a hungry market with a burning need. Fill it by creating your own repackaged, rebranded product from other people's master resale rights products. Use your brain and figure out how to do it better. Don't sell your life for nothing. Charge a higher price and make it worth it to people. Fulfill their need and you'll have no shortage of business.

Copyright 2006 Mike Adams

About The Author
Mike Adams has been marketing on the Internet since the early 1990's. His latest project is Gigantic-Resale-Rights.com. As part of the launch of Gigantic-Resale-Rights.com, Mike is offering our readers several free resale rights packages. You can get yours at: http://www.gigantic-resale-rights.com/5lessons.html

Do You Want To Be The Next Bill Gates?

by: Erik Teh
Over 25 years ago Bill Gates had an idea. Yes, one simple but amazing idea. That idea is now worth over $US50 billion in net income to him, making him the richest man on the planet! That idea is now residing inside your own computer!

Did you know you can turn your own idea into perpetual profits – an unending, unlimited and unfathomable stream of income. You will finally be able to quit your J.O.B. Do you want to know an amazing secret to perpetual profits? Create an asset!


Here is the simple formula: Your idea = Assset

What is an asset? I read somewhere that “it is something that you own that puts money in your pocket”. Think of your favorite rock stars – they have made millions from their asset (Music Cds). Their musical ideas are created into songs. Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Elvis Presley & Madonna have billion dollar empires from their asset – they make perpetual income year after year from their music. Stephen King and Tom Clancy create their wealth from their asset (Books) – it produces money for them years after their idea became books. And when Bill Gates sleeps he earns billions from his asset (Software) every day.

Did you know you can make tons of money through the internet by marketing your idea properly. The internet is a powerful tool to sell your ideas for lots of cool cash. For example Dell Inc, the technology giant, earns $US65 million a day in sales from their website? Yes $US65 million per day from selling their asset (computers)!!! You also can start earning perpetual profits, and millions too from your own website. Just believe in yourself.
Your idea doesn’t need to be complicated. Your idea can be simply information, such as “How to pickle eggs” or “How to scalp on the Forex market”. This may be in the form of e-Books, Audio products or Video products. Whatever it is turn your idea into an asset and market it on the internet!

This Internet Marketing stuff really works. Take action now – turn your asset into millions (maybe billions).

So what is your idea? Remember Bill Gates was once like you - he was just a man with an idea.
Erik Teh
The amazing resource website is found at http://www.InternetProfitMentor.com
Save thousands of dollars. 100% FREE internet marketing tips and strategies.

About The Author
Erik Teh is a Senior Financial Analyst and Currency Trader.

Owning A Small Business

Expo To Help Americans Realize Their No. 1 Goal:

by: Aggie Kobrin

From television commercials to websites to expos and conferences, the call to become an entrepreneur is loud and clear. And it's no surprise. According to the latest research, owning a business has been cited as the number one goal of Americans today. Approximately 62,000 small businesses start up on a monthly basis nationally, according to the Small Business Administration. Small business is a driving force in the United States economy with more than 24 million businesses running today, approximately 17 million of those being sole proprietorships.

"A distinct feature of the current growth of small business is the rise of one-person operations, by far the fastest growing segment of the self-employed," said Aggie Kobrin, founder of Conference and Expo Connections, LLC, which will be holding the Business Opportunities Series and Expo (BOSS) on Feb. 4 in Irvine, Calif. "Entrepreneurship has always been a major part of the American Dream."
Kobrin, who plans on making BOSS a traveling event throughout the nation, realizes, however, that just creating awareness of the business opportunities available is not enough for small business growth and success. Aside from showcasing the different start-up opportunities available, including franchises, businesses for sale and network marketing opportunities. The conference will also feature workshops on how to increase the chances of success through proper operations, marketing and planning.
"Approximately 80 percent of new businesses fail within the first three years of starting a business because of inexperience or lack of proper marketing," said Greg Scott Reid, author of the best seller, "The Millionaire Mentor".
Reid will be speaking at the event as will television personality Dr. Letitia Wright, who will tape her nationally syndicated cable show, "The Wright Place," from the Expo. Other speakers include:
- Mimi Donaldson, business consultant and nationally-renown speaker and author
- Vanessa Besack, public relations and marketing consultant
- Steve Burgess, co-author of best-selling book, "Purpose, Passion, Abundance"
- Rick Eggleton, franchise consultant
- Susan Fiskin, professional speaker and business coach
- Linda Hollander, author of "Bags to Riches: 7 Success Secrets for Women in Business"
- Dawn M. Holman, successful entrepreneur, PR and marketing consultant and trainer.
"Our conference is ideal for individuals who currently run a small business -or aspire to-find the ideas, products and services to help them build their business successfully," Kobrin said.
The February event will be the first BOSS event planned for the western United States in 2006. Additional events are planned for San Diego, Calif., San Jose, Calif., and the Seattle, Wash. areas in the spring and fall of 2006.

For more information, visit http://www.bizoppseries.com or call: (949) 727-1211.

About The Author
Aggie Kobrin, founder of Conference and Expo Connections, LLC, which will be holding the Business Opportunities Series and Expo (BOSS) on Feb. 4 in Irvine, Calif. http://www.bizoppseries.com

George Eastman

BiographyEastman was born in Waterville, some 20 miles southwest of Utica, in Oneida County, New York. He was the third and youngest child of George Washington Eastman and Maria Kilbourn, both of the bordering town of Marshall. In 1854, his father established Eastman’s Commercial College in Rochester and moved the family to that city in 1860. Two years later, his father died and Eastman left high school to support the family and had begun working as an office boy by the age of 14.An advertisement for the Kodak camera.

On September 4, 1888 Eastman registered the trademark Kodak, which was simply a combination of some of his favorite letters, and received a patent for his camera which used roll film. He coined the phrase "You press the button, we do the rest." The camera owner could return it to Kodak with a processing fee of $10, and the company would develop the film and return 100 pictures, along with a new roll of 100 exposures.Eastman endowed the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, and chose as its first director Alfred Klingenberg, who was succeeded by the American composer and conductor Howard Hanson.

Hanson made Eastman's school one of the most prestigious music schools in America.In 1925, Eastman gave up the day-to-day management of Kodak, becoming chairman of the board. He thereafter concentrated on philanthropic activities. In his last two years Eastman was in great pain. He had trouble standing and his walking became a slow shuffle that was caused by a (unnamed at the time) degenerative disorder that was affecting his spine.

A modern diagnosis would probably cite spinal stenos is, a narrowing of the spinal canal caused by arthritis in the joints of the back. He grew depressed knowing he would likely be spending the rest of his life in a wheelchair, something he saw his mother having to use in the last two years of her life.In 1932, he ended his own life by a single gunshot to the heart with a semi-automatic pistol, leaving a suicide note that read, "My work is done. Why wait?" Eastman, who never married, is buried at Kodak Park in Rochester, New York.

Stephen R. Covey

(born October 24, 1932 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is the author of the international best selling book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, first published in 1989. Other books he has written include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership and The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families. His latest book is The 8th Habit, published in 2004. Covey lives with his wife Sandra, and their family in Provo, Utah, home to Brigham Young University where Dr. Covey taught prior the publication of his best selling book. He is a father of nine and a grandfather of forty-four; he received the Fatherhood Award from the National Fatherhood Initiative in 2003.

Covey is the founder of the formerly Covey Leadership Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, which after being acquired by FranklinQuest on May 30, 1997 became the FranklinCovey Company, a global professional services firm and specialty retailer selling both training and productivity tools to individuals and organisations. Their mission statement reads: "We enable greatness in people and organizations everywhere."Covey holds a BS in Business Administration from University of Utah in Salt Lake City, an MBA in Business Administration from Harvard University, and a DRE in Mormon Church History and Doctrine from Brigham Young University. He has made teaching principle-centered living and principle-centered leadership his life's work.Covey is also a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity.The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Covey's most famous book, was extremely successful and has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide since its first publication in 1989. The audio version was also the first non-fiction audio book in U.S. history to sell more than one million copies. Many of the ideas and language are recast from the classic 1966 Peter F. Drucker text "The Effective Executive," wherein he writes "Effectiveness, in other words, is a habit" and which includes a chapter called "First Things First."

In Covey's version, he argues against what he calls "The Personality Ethic", something he sees as prevalent in many modern self-help books. He instead promotes what he labels "The Character Ethic", which is about aligning one’s values with so called "universal and timeless" principles. Covey is adamant about not confusing principles and values. Principles are external natural laws; values are internal and subjective. Covey proclaims values govern people’s behaviour but it's principles that ultimately determine the consequences. Covey presents his teachings in a series of habits - a progression from dependence, to independence, to interdependence.

Joe Vitale is President of Hypnotic Marketing

A marketing consulting firm. He has been called "the Buddha of the Internet" for his combination of spirituality and marketing acumen. His articles are widely read, and his professional clients include the Red Cross, PBS, Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, and many other small and large international businesses. His past books include There's a Customer Born Every Minute (Wiley) and the AMA Complete Guide to Small Business Advertising.

The Attractor Factor: 5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth (or Anything Else) from the Inside Out

In The Attractor Factor, Joe Vitale combines principles of spiritual self-discovery with proven marketing concepts to show how anyone can live a happy life in and outside of business. He shares his own quest for wealth and success while leading you through the five simple steps that will make all your aspirations, professional and personal, a reality.

A close-up scrutiny of the `5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth' reveals no big secrets. These are the summary of the 5 Easy Steps (extracted from Page 176): - Know what you don't want; - Select what you do want; - Clear all negative or limiting beliefs; - Feel what it would be like to have, do, or be what you want; - Let go as you act on your intuitive impulses, & allow the results to manifest. Yes, that's it.

Keep The Main Thing , The Main Thing

By Thea Westra

“Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit” (Conrad Hilton)
“Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours” (Mark Twain)

“It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final” (Anon.)
“Successful people aren't supermen and women. They fail, but fail forward. Success is not about perfection, it's about progression” (Simon Reynolds - advertising wiz.)
When you create or design something new for your future e.g. a new goal or enterprise, then you can be assured that there will be ups and downs.
Initially there may be very few, if any “flat times” because of all the associated novelties and the learning curve. The excitement and passion may last days, weeks and even months.
If your goal or new enterprise involves a 3 or 5 year plan, then chances are that you will experience many highs and lows. We do “know” this, yet when the flat times arrive we behave as though “it should not be that way” and lose momentum.
Here are some tips for staying on the road if you are crystal clear that you are using the most effective “vehicle” of your choice to fulfill specific outcomes.

1. Be very clear and maintain your clarity of purpose for wanting to accomplish your goal/intended outcome.
Have at hand a minimum of five terrific reasons for why you “have to” and absolutely “must” accomplish your chosen goal. Continue to update that list and occasionally rewrite the list. Over time your initial reasons may lose their spur quality.

2. Create an environment that consistently reminds you of your original purpose and of your intended, ultimate outcome.
The following are a few basic ideas for this:
Surround yourself with physical displays such as computer screen-savers, wall boards, a piece of jewellery, markers/images in your diary, a house/garden plant that you watch grow as your enterprise does.
Choose with whom you spend most time and use regular meetings or calls with a buddy, coach, mentor or supportive partner.
The more people you tell about your goal, the more often you will be taken back to that time of your original excitement because of their questions about how you’re coming along.
Play pieces of music while working to inspire you and keep you “in the moment” of what you are creating.
Make it a weekly practice to listen to motivating teleseminars or CD recordings of other successful and inspiring people.
Spend regular moments of time visualising your intended future. Really work on getting your “picture” (of the ultimate point of final accomplishment) more and more clear for yourself so that you can almost touch, smell, see the colours and hear the sounds of all that's around you.

3. Set up physical spaces that fully support your designed future. Have your home office fitted with tools that really work for you. Have simple and clear filing and storage systems so there’s a place for everything and you don’t arrive at a desk each morning with numerous piles of tasks – putting you in a ‘space’ of overwhelm before you even begin the day. Begin to list and start putting together your necessary resources. For example, there is no sense offering hard-copy information to others if you do not have sufficient materials at your finger tips, should many opportunities show up all at once. Create email or hard-copy templates for standard replies to common requests.

4. Learn to control and manage the Little Voice in your head. Thank it for sharing. Create an imaginary buddy for this ‘voice’, a buddy who tells you something to encourage and empower. You can even “tap” on your negative self-talk to gradually peel away the “onion-layers”! (See www.anxiety.com.au)

5. Chart your progress and have your chart(s) on display. Know that you are moving and that you have made progress. Set specific milestones at preset dates that you can celebrate along the way.
A wide angled view of success is: being fulfilled, self-expressed, authentic and joyful. You cannot experience these without 100% congruence between you and your environment. Your environment either calls forth your authentic-self or keeps you locked in a cycle of frustration.

Resourceful sites: http://www.lifeexcellence.com/index.shtml ; http://www.ecomhelp.com/KB/inspiration/kb_motivating-yourself-when-you-dont.htm AND; http://www.coping.org/growth/success.htm

Howard Hughes was a pioneering American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer

Howard Robart Hughes, Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was a pioneering American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer. He was widely known as a playboy and one of the wealthiest people in the world. He is famous for setting multiple world air-speed records, building the Hughes H-1 Racer and H-4 Hercules airplanes, producing the movies Hell's Angels and The Outlaw, owning and expanding TWA, and for his increasingly eccentric behavior later in life.


Hughes was born in Humble, Texas, on September 24, 1905, although his exact birthdate is debated by some biographers. According to NNDB.com, "Hughes claimed his birthday was Christmas Eve, but according to his baptismal records he was actually born on the more mundane date of September 24." His parents were Allene Gano Hughes and Howard R. Hughes Sr., who patented the tri-cone roller bit, which allowed rotary drilling for oil in previously inaccessible places. Howard R. Hughes Sr. founded Hughes Tool Company in 1909 to commercialize this invention.Hughes grew up under the strong influence of his mother, who was obsessed with protecting her son from all germs and diseases. From his father, Hughes inherited an interest in all things mechanical.



At age 12, Hughes was photographed in the local newspaper as being the first boy in Houston to have a 'motorized' bicycle, which he had built himself.Hughes' parents died within two years of each other, while he was still in his teens. Allene Hughes died at the age of 39 in March 1922 due to complications from an ectopic pregnancy. Less than two years later in January 1924, Howard Hughes Sr. died of a heart attack. Their deaths apparently inspired 19-year-old Hughes to include the creation of a medical research laboratory in his 1925 will. It is also believed that the research laboratory was conceived as a tax shelter.



Because Howard Sr.'s will had not been updated since Allene's death, young Hughes inherited 75 percent of his father's multi-million dollar fortune, which included the increasing amounts of cash flow generated from oil drilling royalties.[1] Hughes dropped out of Rice University shortly after his father's death. In June 1925, at age 19, Hughes married Ella Rice, and shortly thereafter they left Houston and moved to Hollywood where Hughes hoped to make a name for himself making movies.

5 Laws to Get It and Keep It

By Jeff Herring

The Law of a Dream
Most people remain unmotivated because they are not pursuing a big enough dream. If you have big and compelling enough dream, the motivation will come naturally. Everyone has a dream. What is yours?

The Law of Desperation
From the school kid who waits to the last minute to start a project to the husband that does not get it until his wife is walking out the door, some folks seem to have to be desperate to get going. While it may work for some, it does not have to be that way for you.

The Law of a Kick in the Pants
From time to time, we all could use a kick in the pants. The enemies of motivation - laziness, distraction, feeling overwhelmed - attack each of us. A good swift kick in the pants by someone who cares, better yet, from ourselves, can get us back in the game.

The Law of Doing
Dare to do! What's so daring about doing? Most people just think, wish and wonder about doing. It's the rare person who dares to do.

The Law of Momentum
Once you begin doing, something very interesting happens. Momentum begins to build, and things that up until now seemed insurmountable become simply the next small challenge, and when accomplished, build even more momentum.

What is a millionaire

A millionaire is either an individual or any person who resides in a household whose net worth or wealth exceeds one million units of any currency. A hectomillionaire has a net worth of more than 100 million units of currency, but the technically incorrect centimillionaire is more often used to mean the same thing. While statistics regarding financial assets and net worth are presented by household, the term is also often used to describe only the individual who has amassed the assets as millionaire. Thus the term statistically refers only to households, while in common language use it may only refer to an individual.A certain level of prestige is associated with being a millionaire, which makes that amount of wealth a goal for many. However, due to inflation, the status of millionaire is no longer as exclusive as it once was. The increasing number of millionaires is partially due to inflation: a million dollars, for example, provides far less purchasing power today than it did in the 19th century. However it still ensures a comfortable lifestyle for those becoming millionaires.