The other kind of school does a kid the best then the 3 R's one. They been doing some articles on AOL about successful people. One was really bored with school, ended up graduating high school with a D average. But his head was always going it said. So he got into selling stuff and was good at it. Opened a small advertising agent place. Microsoft hired him when they first come out with windows, but they were late and only got a booth at the convention so he hired a bunch of hotel people and got this logo to put on every hotel room pillow to visit their booth. He had another idea for a client who turned down his idea, so he took 5 grand of his own money and started making pre-paid phone cards. He sold out to AT&T for 1 billion dollars.... and the rest is history. -- RODEO RAMBLINGS

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Date Posted: 14:32:21 05/20/06 Sat
Author: Varmit
Subject: The other kind of school does a kid the best then the 3 R's one. They been doing some articles on AOL about successful people. One was really bored with school, ended up graduating high school with a D average. But his head was always going it said. So he got into selling stuff and was good at it. Opened a small advertising agent place. Microsoft hired him when they first come out with windows, but they were late and only got a booth at the convention so he hired a bunch of hotel people and got this logo to put on every hotel room pillow to visit their booth. He had another idea for a client who turned down his idea, so he took 5 grand of his own money and started making pre-paid phone cards. He sold out to AT&T for 1 billion dollars.... and the rest is history.
In reply to: ZD Ranch 's message, "Nothing is a better investment than an education. Taking kids to a school is about as good as it gets but bringing a school to the kids would be beyond good. I don't care much what sport it is the kids need a lot of practice. I played golf 1 day a year the whole time my kid was golfing but I hauled the golf team thosands of miles. The one day I played each year was the Father-Son tournament. Won it the last 3 years but you can guess that my kid carried me." on 15:28:18 05/19/06 Fri

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