Marcus Lemonis: The Lebanese Orphan Who Became The Transformer

It wasn't just any family that adopted Marcus Lemonis from a Beirut orphanage when he was nine months old. His father and grandfather ran the largest Chevy dealerships in Miami and Tampa. After graduating from Marquette University, in Milwaukee, Lemonis returned to Florida and started selling cars at his grandfather's dealership. At 22, he made a failed run as a Democrat for an open state representative's seat in South Florida, then chose not to rejoin the family business. "I decided that if I wanted to be successful, I had to get beat up, learn from others rather than from my family," Lemonis says. He took a job at AutoNation, the country's largest car dealer, and worked his way up to regional manager. Then he took some advice from a family friend, Lee Iacocca (the former head of Chrysler Corporation), who told him the path to long-term success lay in finding an industry that was ripe for transformation. Read more:

Marcus Lemonis: The Lebanese Orphan Who Became The Transformer

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Lacking Customers? Why & How To Find New Distribution Channels

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Pop Star Robin Thicke's Parents, Alan Thicke and Gloria Loring, with Mr. T in 1983.

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How To Start Exporting For Small Business

Wolfgang Puck's Long, Winding Road To Success And What You Can Learn From It

'Restaurants,'' says Wolfgang Puck, ''are like children. You feel you always have to be there.''

Puck's labor has borne an empire of 11 elite restaurants, starting with the ground-breaking Spago in Hollywood 18 years ago. Besides his top-flight places, he owns 16 pizza cafes, a chain of ''express'' eateries, a frozen food line, has written four cookbooks and appears regularly on ''Good Morning America.''

His huge success is a tribute to his culinary genius -- he was among the first to champion fresh, local ingredients in restaurant cooking -- and years of hard work with his wife and business partner, Barbara Lazaroff.

But, like parenting, the restaurant business is unpredictable and fraught with mishap. Puck and Lazaroff good-naturedly shared their story, with its ups and downs...

Read more: Wolfgang Puck's Long, Winding Road To Success And What You Can Learn From It

Legendary racing driver Stirling Moss giving me a lesson-- my facial expression says he won--I shouldn't have worn the shirt and tie!

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