Friday, January 21, 2011

mike kinds trip

new york- to look at trucks
to washington then miami
then back home for $385,000
then to panama,clients own colon 2000 (city) and everything in it
made what 20% of what he would in a year in 3 weeks
super resourceful in panama
2000-2001's for fuel usage, due to poor quality deisel

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

milton hershey

failed as a printers apprentice.
1856 moved to a farm
sept 13, 1857 had a baby
1862 had a daughter
1867 sister died
age 13 dropped out of school
june 1st 1876 at 18, began a candy store in Philedelphia shut down after 5 years of hard work
went to new york to make a candy shop with henry liebkicker  went broke again
made chewy milk based caramel, 1894 began the company
made good chocolate for an affordable price,
build a school for orphanas, town was named after him as well as streets
1920 his mother died, 
80th birthday was in the house he was born in
died 1945

Monday, January 10, 2011

warren buffett

-decided debt can ruin someones life and it should be taught at a young age to invest and watch finances to avoid it
-if the people wont come to your buiseness bring your buiseness to the people
-made a cartoon series
teacher children how to invest and finance so they are not left in debt and with key buiseness rules


Thursday, January 6, 2011

jump forward& souls calling

jump forward
$150,000 for 10%
shot down $400,000 for 50%
then $500,000 for 50%
then $600,000 for 60%
wants %750,000 for 50%
takes the deal for $600,000 for 50%

soul calling
$150,000 for 50%
only made $29,000 in 2 years
no one gives her money

Thursday, December 16, 2010

undercover boss/ abm

american building maitenence
33 years old ceo
didnt get the first job driving
didnt get the second job window washing
sucked at being a janitor
tryed being an elivator operator
he was impressed with all their work
donated 25gs to a world trade center fund
sends elivator operator on a vaction and gets him a union in his name
gets kenny a manager job at abm and pays for his firefighter school
gave peter a safety council job, pays for his sons treatement

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

young entraprenuers

bill gates- born in seattle, wanted to expand computer uses
JD rockafeller- born in richmond new york, brought up by his mother
1870 created standard oil
walt disney- created the most famous fictional charectors in the world, rakes in 35 million annually
jim pattison- born in Vancouver, went to ubc got a loan to buy gm motors, opened overwaitea foods,started ripleys beileve it or not, etc.
recieved larger loans eventually buying 13 more dealerships
owns fourth largest company in canada, the jim pattison group employes over 25000 people
Martha stewart- sucessful buiseness woman, went to prison, doesnt sounds very nice.\
Henry Ford: developed ford motors, young entraprenuer, fixed pocket watches for money at school ,mother died at age 13, was self motivated by not wanting to do farm work.
Jerry Yang: electrical engineer, yahoo with 44.6 billion
Ray Kroc: milkshake machines, paper cup sales man
Phil knight: blue ribon sports( nike ) first year 364 $, 1969 over 1 million

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Mr. Giesbrecht

Owner of spa utopia since '02
world is constantly chaning find somthing you can give
imagine things and have an exact plan, most people start things but dont really have a set plan
Find a good partner to be with so theres no arguing and difference in thought
find somthing you are passionate about
read, you can learn from other peoples experiance without having to go through it yourself
stay humble
create pleasure in the workplace