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seemed the prediction had come true. But John Paul was determined to make something of his life. After being fired three times in a row, John Paul partnered with Paul Mitchell, and with just $700 they started their own hair-product company. John Paul Mitchell Systems would go on to earn revenues in excess of $1 billion a year.

PETER FOYO – FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Peter Foyo was a child of hardworking immigrants to the United States. As a child, he dreamed of a technological future where cities ran on solar power and telephones were mobile. When he got older, he dreamed of having a business so huge and successful that he would be the best executive in Latin America. Anyone would have said these were impossible dreams, but Peter realized his dream when he became president of telecommunications giant Nextel Communications Mexico at just thirty-three years of age.
    As for me, I was born into a humble working-class family in Australia. I didn’t have any big aspirations in my early years because I didn’t think big dreams were possible for me. But in 2004, my life changed forever when I discovered a secret, and a huge dream took over me – to share the secret I had discovered with the world. In 2006, The Secret film and book were released, and they swept the globe, reaching tens of millions of people.
    If you are like I once was and you’ve never considered having big dreams because you didn’t think they could happen, know that on the journey you’re about to take you will discover everything you need to make your dreams – however impossible they may seem – come true.
    This is your story. This is your purpose. This is why you are here on planet Earth – to take the Hero’s Journey and to discover the hero within you. With the invaluable wisdom you’re about to receive, and armed with your powerful abilities, you will be able to fulfill your dream and find the true and lasting happiness that every one of us so desperately seeks. No matter where you are in your life, no matter what age you are, it is never too late to follow your dream.





Against All Odds
    No one is born into a perfect life. If you were, you wouldn’t have anything to strive for, and you wouldn’t have the urge to create something with your life. You wouldn’t have any dreams at all. Whatever circumstances you were born into, whatever family life and education you had or didn’t have, you came here to make your dreams come true, and no matter where you are now, you are fully equipped with everything you need to do it!

ANASTASIA SOARE
FOUNDER – ANASTASIA BEVERLY HILLS
I started from nothing. I really, really started from nothing. We had no money. I didn’t speak the language. I had no idea how a Western country worked – the mentality, the financial system. I didn’t even know how to write a check, because we didn’t have that in Romania. I started literally learning the alphabet.

PAUL ORFALEA
FOUNDER – KINKO’S
Not many kids manage to flunk the second grade, but I did. I couldn’t learn the alphabet. I couldn’t read. I was always in trouble. I couldn’t control myself. I was just so impulsive. I was finally expelled from high school at sixteen.
    The tougher the circumstances are in our life and the more the odds are stacked against us, often the more of a catalyst those circumstances will be in propelling us to find our dream.

PETER FOYO
PRESIDENT – NEXTEL COMMUNICATIONS MEXICO
My parents were immigrants to the United States, and we started with nothing. I remember having my pants above my ankles. My father was a general in the country he came from, and when he got to the United States he ended up being a chimney sweeper.

LAIRD HAMILTON
BIG-WAVE SURFER
I grew up in a racially tense environment that had people hating me for how I was born.
“I had all the disadvantages required for success.”
    Larry Ellison
    Cofounder of Oracle Corporation

JOHN PAUL DEJORIA
COFOUNDER – JOHN PAUL MITCHELL SYSTEMS
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