Adam Toren

Adam Toren is a serial entrepreneur, mentor, investor and co-founder of YoungEntrepreneur.com. He is co-author, with his brother Matthew, of Kidpreneurs and Small Business, BIG Vision: Lessons on How to Dominate Your Market from Self-Made Entrepreneurs Who Did it Right (Wiley). He's based in Phoenix, Ariz.

Profile on Mark Zuckerberg

By | November 10, 2009

“The biggest risk you can take is to take no risk” – Mark Zuckerberg To be classified as one of the world’s most influential people at the age of 24 is quite an achievement. Most people of that age are still trying to formulate their ultimate direction in life, let alone have achieved what the [...]

Profile on Vera Wang

By | November 3, 2009

“Don’t be afraid to take time to learn. It’s good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn” – Vera Wang. Vera Wang fully understands that life is all about a long journey through experience. She often talks about life’s rich learning curve and is clearly [...]

Profile on Julie Meyer

By | October 27, 2009

“Never not do something because you don’t have the money. If you want to do it enough and you’re focused enough, the money will find you” – Julie Meyer* She may be American by birth and exhibit all the outward signs of being a fully focused, goal orientated, “winner take all” native, but she prefers [...]

Profile on Milton Hershey

By | October 20, 2009

“I think if you study – if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else” – Milton Hershey. Milton Snavely Hershey was quite possibly the ultimate philanthropist. Born to humble means in rural central Pennsylvania in 1857, Hershey enjoyed just a spotty education [...]

Profile on Jack Dorsey Co-Founder of Twitter

By | October 13, 2009

“We’re fond of constraints that inspire creativity. Constraints inspire us in how we approach the press, how we approach business relationships, how we do everything.” Jack Dorsey. It’s quite sobering to think that someone at the ripe old age of 29 could come up with a such a simple idea, that has the ability to [...]

Profile on Larry Ellison

By | October 6, 2009

“When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts.” – Larry Ellison. Lawrence Joseph Ellison was not to meet his biological mother until he was 48 years old, often feuded with his adoptive father, dropped out of high school and is known for the occasional run in with authority, yet [...]

Profile on Berry Gordy Jr.

By | September 29, 2009

“Don’t judge yourself by others’ standards … have your own. And don’t get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the world. The world has to change to fit you. And if you stick to your principles, values and morals long enough, it will” – Berry Gordy Jr. The auto industry has [...]

"I don't think we can sit back and wait for someone else to take the lead, just so we don't have to expend energy or money. We've got to utilize the recourse it takes to advance our causes and hold up our part of the deal" – Donald Fisher

By | September 22, 2009

Donald Fisher has two life changing events to thank for his legacy. The native Californian readily admits that the first “changed my life completely,” and the second prompted him to start a business enterprise that would elevate him and his wife into the list of the 400 wealthiest people in the United States. Fisher, now [...]

Customers are like a force of nature: you can't fool them and you ignore them at your own peril.” – Herb Kelleher

By | September 15, 2009

Herb Kelleher is synonymous with success. He has become the poster child for the airline industry in an era where there has been precious little good news. Kelleher founded Southwest Airlines against considerable behind the scenes and blatant opposition and went on to head one of the most significant success stories in American business. Kelleher [...]

Profile on Ernest and Julio Gallo.

By | September 9, 2009

“Success in life depends on who your parents were and what circumstances you grew up in” – Ernest and Julio Gallo. Few people have had more of an impact on the US wine market than the Gallo brothers, Ernest and Julio. It is said that they were the first to introduce mainstream advertising and merchandising [...]

Profile on Sir Tom Hunter

By | September 1, 2009

“The man who dies rich, dies in disgrace.” – Sir Tom Hunter. In 2007, considerable publicity was given to the announcement that Sir Tom Hunter would be donating £1b to charity during his lifetime. It was said that this was one of Britain’s largest ever charitable donations and the largest ever by an individual. This [...]

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