Tag: success

I was a songwriter who made no money, so I was a carpet installer. I was a carpet installer who always wanted to cut his head off, so I was a large scale computer system installer. I was a large scale computer system installer who was abandoned by a company in LAX, with no way…

I had an idea. I thought it was going to be great. I worked on it for days. Hour upon hour. I did a lot of research on businesses. I sent over 200 emails to people. I was sure everyone was going to jump on board and love my plan. It was the greatest idea…

I wrote this guy. He was opening a night club in town. I wanted to be a part of it. I said, “hello, my name is Paul. I’m a heck of a marketing guy. I don’t want any money, I just want to own a piece of the club. I’ll do everything for you”. I…

I’m watching Penn & Teller Fool Us. I don’t watch TV unless it’s NASCAR or football. Sometimes I watch nothing just because. This is one of those nights. This is nothing. But it does elicit some questions. It makes me think, “how honest is even the most honest of honest person?” My hope is to…

Bill Gates said if he could have just ONE WISH, it would be this. Ted Turner said if we don’t do something about it that we’re going to start eating each other. John Doerr, a prominent investor said he feared for what his daughter was going to inherit if it wasn’t fixed and he cried…

I used to talk to Mark Cuban once a week or so. He might not know me now but in 2001, we were frequent email friends. I had met a guy named Jim Griffin. He started a listserv called Pho. Pho was all about the entertainment business. Books, music, movies and TV. It was a…