Nearly lost it all along the way, made huge comeback

This Entrepreneur Borrowed $125,000 as a Teen, Then Used It to Build the $1 Billion Jersey Mike's Brand

ComeDown tab for this NFL player: $50 million

How Mark Brunell blew $50 million dollars in failed investments | Daily Mail Online



We were watching a boring documentary last night, when something made up check the TV listings.  NFL football on Tuesday night, definite upgrade!  We switched over.  Then, in the One Thing Leads to Another Dept., something made us think of QB Mark Brunell.  We looked him up, and were somewhat astonished to read about his trip from the heights of NFL stardom all the way back down to earth.....



Nothing is as uncertain as finance, projected profits, cash flow, partners, the market, and whatever is being traded....

Courage and despair

 “It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.”

Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Irony