Da Vinci apprenticed under Verrocchio from the age of 14 to 20, doing menial work in leather, carpentry, drawing, painting, and sculpting.

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“Because we actually give a shit about the people we employ.” That’s what Andy Thorne, President of UK-based distributor Outstanding Branding said when I…

How do you get from $500,000 to $1 million in sales? How do you grow from $1 million to $3 million? What does it take to get to $10 million? This is the…

Feels good. I’ve hit a level of sales that I’m proud of, I’ve worked hard, but … I now realize … future growth is all up to me: my sales, my prospecting,…

It is a sweltering Spring day in San Francisco, and a 14-year old boy walks up and down the bleachers at Candlestick Park, shouting out prices, selling…