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• 1.Teen Entrepreneurs
• Like a lot of college freshmen, Sean Belnick has a job. He works for a company that brings in more than $20 million dollars a year. But Belnick is not...
• 2.When Fortune Spots You
• I started winning competitions. We still had very little money -- my father had to borrow $5,000 to pay for a trip to the International Young Pianists...
• 3.A Prodigy's Early Years
• As a boy growing up in Shenyang, China, I practiced the piano six hours a day. I loved the instrument. My mother, Xiu-lan Zhou, taught me to read note...
• 4.Mahatma Gandhi
• Married by arrangement at 13, Gandhi went to London to study law when he was 18. He was admitted to the bar in 1891 and for a while practiced law in B...
• 5.A Hard Lesson
• Benjamin Franklin is remembered as an inventor, author, statesman, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. But all great people were kids once ...
• 6.Rabindranath Tagore
• Mystic, painter and Nobel laureate for literature, Rabindranath Tagore was a prolific writer (3,000 poems, 2,000 songs, 8 novels, 40 volumes of essays...
• 7.Abraham Lincoln—a great reader
• He became a great reader. He read every book and newspaper he could get hold of, and if he came across anything in his reading that he wished to remem...
• 8.Sir Winston Churchill
• Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was the greatest British statesman of modern times. During his long, colorful public career he was a member of parli...
• 9.Confucius
• Confucius, the greatest teacher in the history of China, was born in 551 B.C. He began to devote himself to serious studies and made up his mind to be...
• 10.Alfred Nobel — A man of contrasts
• Alfred Nobel, the great Swedish inventor and industrialist, was a man of many contrasts. He was the son of a bankrupt, but became a millionaire; a sci...