Stories of how one good idea became something bigger—and what you can learn from the people who made it happen.
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What Comes Easily to You May Be Valuable to Someone Else
When William Wrigley Jr. arrived in Chicago in 1891, he had $32 in his pocket and one thing he knew how to do very well.
Sell soap.
Wrigley had been working in his father’s soap business since he was a teenager. He knew how to talk to cus...
There Are Heartbreaking Secrets About Your Family You May Never Know
Let’s be honest. There are probably things about your parents or grandparents you never thought to ask.
Not the facts you can find on a birth certificate or census record.
I’m talking about the smaller things. What did your mother dream a...
He Saw an Opportunity Everyone Else Had Stopped Seeing
John Sylvan dreamed of making it big in the tech world.
So after graduating from Colby College in 1980, he got a job working for a rather large technology company in Massachusetts.
But every morning at his office job in Boston, he faced a...
Before Van Gogh Became Van Gogh, He Had to Start Over
In the summer of 1888, Vincent van Gogh had been living in Arles, France, for only a few months.
On the fourth of July, he walked out to the stony heath near Montmajour. Small, twisted oaks clung to the dry earth. Behind them rose the ruin...
The Marks We Leave on Each Other
On October 1, 1953, Walter and Patricia were married. They were young and had no way of knowing what the next 73 years would bring. Four children. Grandchildren. Great-grandchildren. Houses, jobs and family vacations. Good years and diffi...
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