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New Survey Examines Whether Entrepreneurs Are Born or Made {AOL Small Business}

Jun 7th 2011 4:32PM bill cosby and Oprah are american billionaires that were not suppose to happen; there were 'security', racist security in place to prevent them from becoming anything, including reading and writing at one time. They didn't come from "dream" family backgrounds but they came from backgrounds, whatever they were that motivated the hell out of them; it was either that or they were born to be. Warrnet Buffett has said again and again he is no financial wizard; he got lucky and carried it through and through. America is suppose to be the place where anyone at anytime can get up and prepare for the market and do it. But there are BLOCKS in place out there to stop most anyone.

Now to the question, are entrepreneurs born or made? Entrepreneurs are born with the predisposition but that doesn't mean their fire will light up to do it but if they do it then they made it happen.

So should be all be looking at entrepreneurship? (I'll tell you a story.)

DWIGHT worked for a billion dollar company. He handled the billing for their largest customers. Dwight had seven kids. Dwight loved his big family. He and his wife decided that she would be a homemaker. The couple wanted their children to go on Disney World trips once a year for nearly a month; they stayed in the best accomodations. Dwight bought some land in some out of the way popular roadways. They went to the lands every weekend. Dwight put coke machines in businesses all along the roadways he travelled and serviced them as he took his family to the land in their motor home. Dwight and his wife had a college fund for the kids, not intending to pay fully for any degree but to have enough money to help out. (I like this story because I like the enriching idea and venture) and so did Dwight and his wife. They loved their small business. As their sons grew Dwight taught them the business.

We are so busy trying to be billionaires...with empty lives. The new version coming in is to be rich and enriched with a great family and friends in tow.
--MO

Is Facebook Really Worth $50 Billion? {AOL Small Business}

Jan 14th 2011 11:00AM MARK ZUCKERBERG LOOKED LIKE A "ROMAN" TO ME FROM THE FIRST TIME I SAW HIS PICTURE. HE FAVORS THAT BUST OF "JULIUS CAESAR" OR SOME OF OTHER SCULPTORS FROM THAT PERIOD; HIS AURA IS THAT OF A PRINCE OR KING, OF ROYALTY. Having said that I am not a fan of FACEBOOK. I think, like others think of GOOGLE, we stand to lose our privacy and more. While I celebrate our ways of democracy and capitalism that allows a young man to create his livlihood, I am afraid that our rights of privacy will be lost to powerful companies that gained their largeness and wealth and even power from the consumers that served it. To me, in a rather extreme view, it's like putting a loaded gun into the hands of a child and telling him he can fire at anything and everything but respect peoples' rights of privacy.

Anxiety Over Credit Scores Holds Back the U.S. Economy {WalletPop}

Dec 23rd 2010 12:17PM LYNNETTE...PLEASE WRITE AN ARTICLE ON: "Credit Without FICO -or-- "Beyond FICO." I became so angry that the Fair Issac 'officials' owned my credit that (as any red-blooded American should) I developed a passion to get around them. That's all you have to do. PUT THE GAME ON THE TABLE...know the rules and then play it. Voila! A passion! You will find yourself somewhere on the other side of your FICO score and you will have the money you want to do what you want and you will not give that much thought to your FICO score because your actions on the game board will actually improve it but the FICO score will no longer leave you feeling helpless in a clutching grip.

Nobody has a right to OWN anybody and that is just what Americans have to become aware of today with all kinds of personal information being invaded and sold to the highest bidder. YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS and it is up to WE, The People...to become inventive. MAKE IT WORK FOR YOU...if FAIR ISSAC gives you lemons...make lemonade!

One old lady found a way to code her charitable donations and other business. She developed a roster of the codes and when she got mail from other vendors with her codes on them she sent the companies that she gave to annually or bought from a letter and told them that she was very much aware that "she had been sold" is how she said it and translated the selling of her personal information so she stopped her annual donations. Thus, many others likely did the same, I know I did, and so, now we have letters from companies swearing that they will never "sell us" to the highest bidder but nobody believes it. A lot of people feel it is open season on American consumers; they have no privacy but they consistently gain "rights to privacy" on paper via Congress.

FIGHT Fair Issac. Send them a letter or just sit down at the kitchen table and develop a strategy to beat them at their own game. Don't feel helpless; feel empowered, and you will come to understand and perceive your life and your business in a way that benefits you, not them. Some families are already enabling themselves by creating their own "loan" and "care" system. The only factor that limits this in-house system is this: some family members do not want to pay their fair share or pay-back what they borrow from family members but they want the help when they need it but they feel STRAPPED family members ought to give them money not loan it (because LOVE is involved); yet they pay monthly payments to loan companies with interest...but then some people do no pay anybody: companies or families. So then, GIVE THEM A FICO SCORE and never loan to them again..

So, there you go, FICO and BEYOND FICO is up to the people in every way shape or form in business and at home. The Fair Issac System owns your credit but it is just a company that needs a hefty competitor that frees us...at least makes us think we are freed by their new marketing plan. We'll buy it like hotcakes!--MO

Are Single Mothers Raising Their Daughters to Be Single, Too? {Lemondrop}

Dec 4th 2010 8:47PM LENA CHEN, I would like to encourage you to write a book on this subject. It is right on. Obviously, in a FREE world people will do things their way. You are still young and your times will change your chapters. You feel free now because you are into your life but later on you may change your mind and you may meet someone you feel special about and then you will know a very different kind of marriage from your parents. I THINK YOUR PARENTS DID A GOOD JOB AS ONE HUMAN TO ANOTHER. They did the American thing even in China: IF LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS....! But...what makes me like your story is that it is quite similar to mine because one of my daughters could have wrote the same article about how wonderful it is to have divorced parents that get along, who feel good all the time when they are around each other at things for their children. The last meeting our group had my exhusband broght up stuff from the past: (we're divorced 30 years) and I tried to be nice and brush it all off but all that anomosity came back within seconds, a total difference in what we had been doing for 30 years. But we're back on track now.

I just told my exhusband that he was my hero-man and that I would love him eternally!!! ( I don't want to be with him; I don't want to have sex with him; I don't need him to LOVE me): I don't want any of that rather "cheap" reasoning that people use when they talk about marriage and partners in your life forever.
I have real personal reasons for continuing my love stream for this particular person, the man in my life, forever, and I feel I know something about what the long-married people talk about when they've had something worthwhile together in their relationship. (I THINK I KNOW ABOUT IT); well, I interviewed a lot of widows and I think now I understand what FOREVER means when it comes to all of this "committed" stuff. (smile) Good luck to you young lady. I'm happy you have great parents.
Margaret Opine

Tiger Woods-Elin Nordegren Divorce Settlement Reportedly Final {Fanhouse Golf Blog}

Jul 1st 2010 11:34AM My emails and telephone mesaages are plentiful. It is women who are upset about this. They don't like how this may affect women-at-large because nobody feels this is fair but then when they get to talking about it, they end up back at the amount of money "inferred". They think damages have been done but that amount of money. Well, that's it!

A few messages and one email had this mantra, "Now whose the 'ho?" Meaning, Elin is putting herself in the same light as the professional women who have been servicing Woods for a long time.

Woods has friends and these friends are highly experienced with this kind of scenario. I just know they "schooled" him on the Dos & Don'ts, but it appears that Tiger wasn't listening. Once upon a time what he hoped to do might have worked but think...on one fine day he met the woman who may have just taken him down to zero! Whose to say his endorsements are going to come back. Why didn't he just keep his money and open a candy shop in Tobbokin and married a 'nice' little wife, had a couple of kids and go on with life? Is it intelligent sense to give up that kind of money without contracts guaranteeing a recovery? Woods may gain out this because of the number--he's getting a lot of sympathy because of the number.
--MO

Cristiano Ronaldo bends it like Beckham in Armani campaign {WalletPop}

Jun 27th 2010 3:43PM IIIIIIIII so totallly agree!!!!
I was just saying to myself, "That kid is gay." He may not even know it yet but ...!

At any rate...I wish him and all the best in the world.
You go boy!

--MO

10 Things You Thought Were Black Owned -- But Aren't {theBVX.com}

Jun 9th 2010 2:34PM The point as I see it clearly is that "black" is not business, "green" is business. Oh go on and tell me how "selling-out" for $$$, money," and I will tell you that if you want to run a social service agency then do it; if you want to live in a socialistic society then go there. But like BO said from the jump, "I am not a black president nor a white president; I'm an American president." One of the greatest thinkers of our time is telling you to put away your black skin color and open your natural mind and use it to help build our capatialistic system. So what if your skin is black? Now people are beginning to say this: SO WHAT IF YOUR SKIN IS LIGHT OR WHITE? What is beginning to matter around the world is business and profits come "green" and that same green comes with the new conservation movement. Entrepreneurs will learn how to capitalize off of that movement and in this country, my country, your country, that is exactly what they are expected to do.

Now, these formally black-owned companies were not really "black-owned" ever! They were entrepreneuial-owned and built. That's the point. Some of the customers may have dark skin color but the entrepreneur saw green, not black.

I may be wrong but I want to see and hear somthing else coming from the mouths and minds of people with obvious pigmentation on the dark side because people with obvious pigmentation on the light side had this same problem with their people but they didn't give up; enough of them flourish so that we have what we live today.

BO is ahead of the FREE WORLD right now and he is telling you essentially, along with his accomplished wife: (paraphrased) I DARE YOU SEE NOTHING OF ME BUT MY SKIN COLOR. AND WHEN WE ARE GLOBAL PLAYERS AND LEADERS WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE ALL COLORS, WILL YOU STILL HARP ON THAT WORD "BLACK" AS OUR IDENTITY? There is more to these elistist people than their skin color. And, they proved it! (And if you think they are not making the same sort of business decisions everyday as these wealthy men and women, then think again.)

I learned my lesson well when Mandela was freed from prison. He was an attorney. (Martin Luther King, Jr. was a prominent minister, educated well, too.) These two men could have done what most dark-colored people are doing everyday--talking about what's wrong with the world, watching tv, and having another cup of coffee or a beer. OR, they could have relaxed in their lives and ate off of fine dishes and had servants and a big house and a fine car. They were already elite. These men gave their lives to save the "black" people.

Well, when Mandela was finally freed from the oppressor's prison in South Africa, a journalist went there after six months and put a microphone under the nose of A Man On The Street, and that person said this, (I'll never forget it): "Mandela has been free for six whole months and he has done nothing to help people. He has done nothing at all. I am still in the same position as I was. He could have stayed in prison for all I care." That simpleminded man changed my life. I was already on a path toward my American Dream using self-help principles but this dude from down-under (in his spirit) raised my spirit through the rafters.

Let me tell you now that if I went into business like Johnson on my mother's hardearned $500 and made it a billion-dollar empire and had no dscendants that were the least bit interested nor any people with dark-skin coming to me to do business, I would do the right business thing and sell part of the company just like it was described in the comments above. What these socalled "black" billionaires did was BUSINESS, not racism.

GO TO SCHOOL....TRAVEL THE WAY THAT THEY DID...RISE...MAKE A SUCCESS OF YOUR BUSINESS AND SEE DON'T YOU MAKE YOUR BUSINESS DECISIONS ON BUSINESS SENSE AND NOT SKIN-COLOR RACIST SENSE.
--MARGARET OPINE

Constance McMillen: Mississippi's Pro-Gay Prom Rebel is a Hero {Politics Daily}

Apr 19th 2010 1:40AM WHY CONSTANCE MC MILLEN, I think the High School has just handed you an illustrious career on a platter if you want to take it. AMERICA NEEDS YOU, I hope you pick up the banner, get your college career done and become a foremost Civil Rights leader, attorney, writer or whatever, because you can know that the opportunity did come-a-knockin'!

THE MERE FACT that the public high school sent a memo out "banning" people from being people in the first place, even to the point of banning a girl from wearing a tuxedo to her prom, is in violation of the Civil Rights laws in this country. It is a PUBLIC school; that means the public owns it and demands that there be civil rights in its public domain. That brings us to the point of EDUCATION. The principal is not there to establish a new country in that school; he is suppose to be there educating students about the country they already live in. It is not his school; the school belongs to the public. (Now, does that mean that the principal doesn't have a right to his own feelings and opinions? Of course he has those rights but those are not the feelings and opinions he is to mandate in the public school setting.) So, it appears to me that the principal is inadequate in his ability to teach and administrate this most public institution.

SOME PEOPLE WOULD FIND MY POSITION ON THIS RATHER AMBIGIOUS since I voted yes on Prop 8 in California. But, in that election I felt I had to defend the civil rights of the "traditionalists" for the same reason I defend the rights of Constance McMillen to wear "appropriate" formal dress to her prom and to bring an "appropriately" behaving date to that formal affair. Constance can no more do something about what's in the minds of some of her fellow students (and the principal) than the African Americans could have done with the thoughts in the minds of white racists in earlier schools. Yet America moved forward on Civil Rights. America will move forward on this too.

The traditionalists have a right to their way of life and the gays have a right to their ways of life. All ways of life that Americans live is American! We can all live together if we respect each other's civil rights. I voted for Prop 8 because I defend that position and I feel that with just a change in wording and a tweak in ideals; we're good to go toward our future with both parties at the prom.

--MO

New York's Anti-'Pants On the Ground' Ad Campaign {theBVX.com}

Mar 31st 2010 10:28AM I HAVE ALWAYS SAID, 'NO SON OF MINE WILL EVER WEAR HIS PANTS LIKE THAT!' I've always said that, fiercely, but just as fierce, I oppose the view that Senator Eric Adams makes in the YOU TUBE video called "STOP THE SAG." I vehmently express my rage and anger over the statement that Senator Adams made regarding the youth wearing sagging pants. To stereotype young African American males with this responsibility based on racist views is just sickening to my stomach. To call the youth, the future of tomorrow's America, "minorities" in their own country--well, I think that is a much bigger [political] sin. I'd say to my son immediately after seeing that video, (if I had a son), "You will not sag your pants because it is slubborn and undiginified as a man and self-depriving; however, let's get up and go to the store right now and buy you top of the line sagging-paraphenalia, for both me and you, and we will make it out of a true political statement in our American world. ('By the way son, how much is this garb going to cost me?')" And when he told me the price the youth are paying for this garb, that my son is likely to inform me is really artwork, very expensive art designs....noting that the style is all about expression, political assertions and spirit, coming out, feeling confident,the whole nine-yards of being a young male in likely an oppressive position in American society, certainly feeling that way; well, I'm likely to buy the garb and do the political expression with him, but in my Quicken records I am likely to file the expense under, "education" and argue with the IRS about making it a deduction because we, as parents, his father and I, do not believe in 'sagging' unless our son can tell us WHY and what the movement is all about and what they hope to affect by doing so. That points to 'education' and we bought his 'books' for him: the expensive clothes: the pants with a message, the underwear which is not just any old underwear; they have to be specific to the style.

'THE SAGGING MOVEMENT" DID BEGIN AS A PRISON EXPRESSION...but I think it is more than that now...WE HAVE TO ASK THE YOUTH; it may be a "KISS MY ASS" expression for the oppression some of the young males feel; they may be saying: "THIS IS A BOODY CALL AMERICA!" They will tell you what it all means if we are willing to ask them and shut up and let them tell us.

JUST BEFORE I LOOKED AT THIS VIDEO I WAS LOOKING AT AND THINKING ABOUT THE VIDEO ON THE "COMING OUT" OF YOUNG RICKY MARTIN who is the father of twins by synthetic means.

NOW...coming to this website after that and looking at this stereotypical (and racist) video on sagging pants, pointed at the young African American males who are strikingly targeted for political oppression in their country (by a 'black' senator and 'white' others)....well now, I got to tell you: I'm concerned about a lot more than sagging pants; I am seriously considering how I feel about synthetically-conceived children and all that social jazz including sexual identity and sexual confusion and morality is also on my thought-filled agenda. Just know, some youth are saying, "I'M YOUNG, GET OFF MY BACK--WHY DON'T YOU; GIVE ME SOME TIME TO GROW UP!"...well, as a mother of girls, let me tell you about how I felt when they had a just-about naked picture of Prince on the wall in their room. You can bet I didn't call them a 'minority' in their own country and I didn't say they would amount to nothing in their lives. But I did ask them about Prince. And I did listen. They knew everything about Prince; they knew why they loved him and admired him as a musician. In doing that, it gave them the power of recognition they sought. I came to love Prince too but I hated the naked picture and assumed he was a closeted-gay-male. Even so, I did tell them that he was trying to 'find himself' like Madonna. (I recently got an email reminding me that I told them in their youth that when Madonna became a mother she would want a perfect world for her children but her entire career up to that point was risque and influenced some youth negatively.)

If President Barack Obama said what Senator Adams has said (both, career-minded young men) I would be just as vehemently opposed and I would call it racism and stereotyping and useless rhetoric. HOWEVER, IF MR. OBAMA SAID IN HIS STYLE, and in Senator Adam's style this simple mantra (and let that be it; I think the results would be immediate) "WHEN WE LIFT OUR PANTS, WE LIFT OUR IMAGE AND OUR DIGNITY AS MEN." Period. Dot. All that 'coon' crap is for times gone by. It has nothing to do with these kids today, specifically. There has to be a "cool" campaign slogan that ignites a movement to do 'unsagging'. The stereotyping in the video just deepens the cause and the rebellion.

(Don't forget now, on the 6pm news there are males and men in the MiddleEast and they wear saggy pants. Somewhere else in the world, the males and men wear skirts. These males feel they have dignity and integrity and lots of it. So, the cause and problem is bigger than clothes. It is a political statement I think. But we have to ask the youth; we are suppose to ask the youth; that's how we are suppose to help our youth get a voice and keep a voice--Give them a voice and a forum to speak their minds and give their expressions their identity...DURING THEIR TIMES...hello!!!)
--MO

Tiger Fooling Nobody With 5-Minute Blips {Fanhouse - Jay Mariotti}

Mar 22nd 2010 3:40PM ENUFF!!!! THAT'S ENOUGH QUESTIONS TO ASK ANY MAN ABOUT HIS PERSONAL LIFE AND IT IS GOOD TO KNOW THAT TIGER WOODS WON'T GIVE ANY OTHER ANSWERS. HE WILL DO THE ANSWER GAME ABOUT AS PROFESSIONAL AS HE DOES HIS GOLF GAME. HE HAS A CHANCE TO BECOME AN EVEN BIGGER CHAMPION BY WINNING AFTER HIS BOYHOOD FIASCO, WHICH TURNED HIS LIFE UPSIDE DOWN OR CREATED THE BIGGEST GOLF 'MARKETING' CAMPAIGN IN US. HISTORY. HE IS IN ANOTHER STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT IN THIS REAL LIFE THOUGH; BRINGING HIM CLOSER TO HIS MANHOOD BUT HE IS A FULL DECADE AWAY. WE'LL SEE. HE TOLD THE MEDIA THAT HE GOT AWAY FROM HIS ROOTS AND HOW HE WAS RAISED; WELL, HE WILL GROW OUT OF THAT AND BECOME WHO HE IS AS A PERSON AND MAKE NO APOLOGIES FOR THAT.

The one thing that fascinates me is this: Tiger Woods is not alone; he's normal, like everyone else, like other 30-year olds; but he really believes because he is a billionaire golfer he is not a real human and real life does not affect him. Life is IDEAL and that is the way it will stay by making choices. He went to professional help to gain relief from his real life sexual pressures and to gain sexual pleasure; he is going to professional help to help himself rid himself from those same sexual pressures and to forget the freedom of sexual pleasures. The view of this IDEALLY is that love will conquor all. Well, it won't. Love will grow right along side his sexual desires and/or addiction if he has one. It could be just a matter of growing up. But, if he is addicted to professional sex then he will be walking the floor during the midnight hour. 45-days won't bring it under control but years of behavior modification just might. But all is takes is a normal marital spat with sex denied and he back at square one.

I think Tiger Woods will do good to look forward to his retirement from golf because being 'perfect' is very hard to do for long. I would never raise my son to look up to another man as a hero. I would raise my son to look to his own manhood as the hero.
--MO