Rocky Roads to Success: Eleanor of Aquitaine – A Talent for Staying in Power
Eleanor of Aquitaine was born around the year 1122, as exact records of a birth that long ago do...
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Rocky Roads to Success: Simon Cowell – Failure Was Not An Option
Born in London just before the rise of the swinging 1960s, Simon Cowell’s mother and father counted their professions...
Rocky Roads to Success: Michael Dell – Ahead of the Tech Curve
Michael Dell was born in Houston, Texas in 1965 to an upper middle class Jewish family. Even in...
Rocky Roads to Success: Robin Wright – Talent Strikes Twice
Robin Wright was born to non-entertainment industry parents in 1966 Texas. After a move to California however, she...
Arianna Huffington – A Super-Short Celebration Of Success by The Best You
Start up and stay there – You have to do what you dream of doing even while you’re afraid...
Jay-Z: Empire State of Mind
“I’m far from being god, but I work god damn hard.” Hailing from the projects of New...
Leonardo Del Vecchio: The Vision to Achieve
“I am proof that you can you make money in Italy and be honest.” He was given...
Ingvar Kamprad: A Mind Made for Business
“Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.” Ingvar Kamprad grew up about as...
Samuel L. Jackson: The Way Up
“If you have an opportunity to use your voice, you should use it.” Samuel Leroy Jackson was...
Harris Rosen: Self-Made Satisfaction
“We are a cut above the rest because they (bigger chains) have so much on their plates, whereas...
Catherine Zeta-Jones: All The Right Moves
“I hope I can help remove any stigma attached to , and that those who don’t have it...
Tatyana McFadden: Racing History
Tatyana McFadden began life seemingly at a standstill. Born in 1989 in St. Petersburg, Russia, doctors quickly diagnosed...
Damien Hirst: The Death and Life of Art
In 1965 Damien Hirst began his art assault on the world. This was the year of this birth,...
Craig Venter: Mapping What We’re Made Of
Craig Venter began his journey in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1946. For all he would become later...
Chaka Khan: Not Just Every Woman
In 1953 Chaka Khan came into the world in Chicago under the name Yvette Marie Stevens. She had...
Boutros Boutros-Ghali – The World Is His Stage
Seemingly raised to occupy high-profile positions in international politics, Boutros Boutros-Ghali was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1922....
Jane Somerville: Healer of the Heart
A theatre critic and Vogue magazine employee turned out to be in vastly different professions from their daughter,...
Chris Gardner: A Prosperous Pursuit
Born in 1954 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Gardner and his siblings lived in a tumultuous home due to a...
Rosa Parks: First Lady of Civil Rights
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born in 1913 and spent her formative years on a farm in Pine...
Rocky Road: Valentina Tereshkova
The highest flying seagull It is not often the case that a mill worker not only dreams of the...
Tim Berners-Lee: The man behind the web
During his appearance in the opening ceremony for the London Olympic Games, NBC commentators famously said of Tim Berners-Lee:...
Rocky Road: Benazir Bhutto
World’s first female Muslim premier Benazir Bhutto, daughter of Pakistan’s premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was born in 1953...
Vince Lombardi: The Greatest American Football coach
Vince Lombardi is arguably the greatest American Football coach of all time, and is on the short list...
Rocky Road: Andrew Carnegie
A tough life can create a habit of hard work. Andrew Carnegie was born in poverty in...