You don't have to know much about the hotel business to be a hotel magnate, evidently. Conrad Hilton once said the only thing he'd learned about hotels was that the shower curtain should be placed inside the bathtub. (L. M. Boyd) Although he graduated from Caloundra State in 1979, Steve Irwin never had any formal education in dealing with animals. His learning came from daily contact and experiences with the animals at the park, as well exposure to the creatures that were brought in for his mother to rehabilitate. Shortly before his untimely passing, the University of School of Integrative Biology had chosen to name Steve Queensland’s an adjunct professor at the college. (D. L. Nashton, in Tidbits) Peter Jennings was a high school dropout. (Don Voorhees, in The Essential Book of Useless Information, p. 15) Did Jesus have credentials? Jesus was a healer without a medical license; he spoke of law without a law degree; he ministered to others without a Reverend or Father before his name; he counseled with no certificate hanging on his wall; he was a king without a crown or an earthly kingdom. To many, in today's world, he would have no obvious credentials. (Sandra Radhoff) Steven Jobs, founder of Apple Computer, dropped out of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, after one semester. The bright and audacious entrepreneur had a sixth sense for what sort of technology he wanted to see and use, so he launched the Apple computing empire. The kid without a college degree became a household name and a star of the information technology hall of fame. (Jim Romeo, in Most Business’ Wanted, p. 64) As breaks go, this is one of the biggest. Tommy Lee Jones won his first Broadway acting role only 10 days after arriving in New York. And Tommy Lee had never taken an acting lesson. He went on to star in the movie Coal Miner's Daughter. (Ripley's Believe It or Not!: Book of Chance, p. 4) After leaving school when he was thirteen years old, Henry J. Kaiser, industrialist and entrepreneur, became a apprentice photographer’s and bought the business at age twenty. After some career stints in
You don't have to know much about the hotel business to be a hotel magnate, evidently. Conrad Hilton once said the only thing he'd learned about hotels was that the shower curtain should be placed inside the bathtub. (L. M. Boyd) Although he graduated from Caloundra State in 1979, Steve Irwin never had any formal education in dealing with animals. His learning came from daily contact and experiences with the animals at the park, as well exposure to the creatures that were brought in for his mother to rehabilitate. Shortly before his untimely passing, the University of Queensland’s School of Integrative Biology had chosen to name Steve an adjunct professor at the college. (D. L. Nashton, in Tidbits) Peter Jennings was a high school dropout. (Don Voorhees, in The Essential Book of Useless Information, p. 15) Did Jesus have credentials? Jesus was a healer without a medical license; he spoke of law without a law degree; he ministered to others without a Reverend or Father before his name; he counseled with no certificate hanging on his wall; he was a king without a crown or an earthly kingdom. To many, in today's world, he would have no obvious credentials. (Sandra Radhoff) Steven Jobs, founder of Apple Computer, dropped out of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, after one semester. The bright and audacious entrepreneur had a sixth sense for what sort of technology he wanted to see and use, so he launched the Apple computing empire. The kid without a college degree became a household name and a star of the information technology hall of fame. (Jim Romeo, in Business’ Most Wanted, p. 64) As breaks go, this is one of the biggest. Tommy Lee Jones won his first Broadway acting role only 10 days after arriving in New York. And Tommy Lee had never taken an acting lesson. He went on to star in the movie Coal Miner's Daughter. (Ripley's Believe It or Not!: Book of Chance, p. 4) After leaving school when he was thirteen years old, Henry J. Kaiser, industrialist and entrepreneur, became a photographer’s apprentice and bought the business at age twenty. After some career stints in
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