Home Depot

Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank are the owners of Home Depot. They started off working at a store called Handy Dan's which they were fired from. They then decided to open up there own place. The two worked hard and ran into many problems but after awhile it started working out. They opened chains up in Miami Canada and South America as well as other places. In less that two decades Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank's Home Depot had become the world's largest dealer of home improvement goods. The rules that these two followed that helped them achieve such great success were give excellent customer service, take care of your people, develop entrepreneurial spirit, Build strong relationships with people, take care of your share holds, give back to your community, do the right thing, and respect all people. Success at home depot also comes also from how the encourage customers to do it themselves. Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank achieved such great success because they already had alot of knowledge in their field and they had the right attitude and business owning rules to get them far.

Conrad Hilton

Conrad is known for his famous hotels. He changed the dieing business and built a huge empire. Conrad set about making his first serious dream come true. Conrad was set on making San Antonio's first bank, but the bank turned out to be a lousy idea. His only option seemed to work for his father in his general store. Conrad was enlisted in France in the supplies section and it was easy duty and he was set in Paris. He received a telegram that said his father was dead and for him to come home. Conrad missed his fathers funeral and he knew his father would want him to take over the general store. He decided that he couldn't be a banker and wanted to get into the hotel business. But his hotel brought in alot of money a week but he knew he had to make more. Soon Hilton started buying hotels for extremely cheap around and fixed them up to work hard. With his business getting bigger he need a slogan which was "minimax" which is minimum price for maximum service. Conrad had three sons which he was set on getting in his bussinnes. the depression then struck and his dream turned into a nightmare. In less than a year Hilton almost lost everything and many men just gave up but not Hilton. Hilton then arranged a meeting with his mother and some other people. They all went through bankruptcy but Hilton said he would not go through Bankruptcy. He then married a women who many men had told him that she was a gold digger. He then married this women and Hilton was then ready for the big leagues. Hilton then started opening up hotels in San Francisco. Then his wife started to become not very good for him. Nick Hilton then married Elizabeth Taylor and after seven months the two divorced. Hilton then realized that airline travel was gonna become bigger so he started to think that setting hotels around the world was a better idea. After his son died Hilton wasn't as big in the business and then he married not a movie star but a women he actually was in love with.

Martha Stuart

Martha was born a chubby baby and she had two siblings. money was tight in her family they were pretty poor. Martha was the oldest daughter and she was expected to do many tasks and she was expected to be a perfectionist. Martha loved to read and was a whiz at math and science and excelled in art. Martha took great pride in her home making skill. Martha noticed as she got older was when she noticed witch family's had it a lot better. She was one of the first girls in her school who took excelled math. Martha made 15 dollars an hour being a model because of her beauty and preppy look. Martha planned her schools prom and it is remembered as the schools best. If Martha was insecure she tried hard not to show it. Martha was a very busy women and she worked hard. Martha made the glamour magazine and it was scene as a sign that she is gonna be extremely successful. Martha married Andy Stewart and her parents wernt so thrilled about it. In 1963 Andy graduated and took Martha on an extended trip in Europe. As a young mother in the world of modeling she had a hard time finding a job. She then set her sights on wall street. Martha wanted to get away from the city and live a nice life. Her and Andy decided to live on a farm. Martha quit her job and Andy had a job in law school where he got enough money money to pay for the family. Martha wanted to use her fathers memory to inspire her book. Martha started doing a show and it became very big very fast. Martha went through a bitter divorce and it left a hole in her family as martha started to movie forward. What i learned from this is that if you get cheat no matter how rich you are you will get caught.

Mike Kinds Last Lecture

Seperate successful people from unsuccessful people is fear. People that have fear are scared of making mistakes and scared of doing things wrong. People make assumpstions on there one experience they had or on other peoples experiences. Keep your eyes open all the time and keep your mind open to oppurtunitys that exist. Copy cat means that you copy an idea that is relatively the same as something else that exists but make it alot better in certain ways. The circle of Infleunce is experienceing certain people in different ways. Dont be age restricted learn from certain people. Do not quit bust on through the brick wall. Most true successes happen after a bad struggle with fail. Never stop learning, you can never be to old to stop learning.`Try and have fun ever day of your life. The one point that i found the best was never quit because i think ity is very important to fight through the problems that you face. You have to solve your problems and fight through failures.

The Apprentice

In this episode the teams Net Worth and Magma have to build a miniature golf course and the team that makes the most money wins at the end off the day. The team has to manage the course for one full day and then at the end of the day the person with the least amount of money loses and a person on there team will be fired. At the end of the day it was Audrey who was fired because she wouldn't take any responsibility for anything and she was constantly blaming everyone else for the mistakes in her team. What i learned from this is that you must take responsibility sometimes and not try to blame things on everyone else.

Uro Club

The positives of the Uro club is sometimes gimmicks get very popular and sell very well because everyone wants to join in on the joke. Another positive is it does help with a problem that is existing with men on the golf course releiving themselves. The Negatives to this product is that it doesnt seem like somthing that would be more than just a joke. Alot of golfers are more seroius and would have no interest in purchasing one of these. I would not be interested in investing in this product it just seems really dumb and wouldnt sell very much at all.

Pork Barrell Spice Rub

The positive about this business is that it was rated one of the second best in the nation. Another positive about Pork Barrell Spice Spice Rub is that it is something could get very big very fast especially in America. The negative about this product is it can also go no way very fast. It all depended on how they were gonna market it. I would personally would invest in Brett and Heath's company because they look like they know what there doing and they have a product that is of course good.

Tom's shoes

This business has a great way of working. It sells shoes to the public and for every shoe sold then a pair of shoes is given away. This is a great idea because there is lot of people out there that like to be charitable but would also like to receive something for being charitable. Toms shoes pretty much works off that because people like the idea of being able to buy something for themselves while being charitable at the same time.