True Stories

By Dr Jill Ammon-Wexler

BACK IN THE MID 1950’s an outrageously flamboyant pianist had dreams of playing to an audience in California’s prestigious Hollywood Bowl. The problem? He was entirely unknown.

But he DID have a burning passion for his dream. So this strangely flamboyant pianist saved enough money to rent the Hollywood Bowl on an off night. That night he showed up wearing a tuxedo, placed a huge crystal vase of long-stemmed red roses on the grand piano, and played a glorious full two hour concert. Except that there was no audience he fully lived his dream.

Four years later, to the very night, Liberace performed at the Hollywood Bowl before a wildly enthusiastic standing-room-only crowd.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

-Napoleon Hill-

In the early 1950s a 65-year-old gentleman had an idea to use his $105 Social Security check to start a business.

He traveled across the country by car from restaurant to restaurant, cooking batches of chicken for restaurant owners and their employees. If the reaction was favorable, he entered into a handshake agreement on a deal that stipulated a payment to him of a nickel for each chicken the restaurant sold.

By 1964, Colonel Sanders had more than 600 Kentucky Fried Chicken franchised outlets in the United States and Canada. That year, he sold his interest in the U.S. company for $2 million to a group of investors.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.

-Napoleon Hill-