Chapter 1
1. Judith Viorst, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (New York: Atheneum, 1972), 5. (back to text)
2. M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled (New York: Touchstone, 1978), 15. (back to text)
3. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary 1906 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999). (back to text)
4. Seth Godin, “‘Slowly I Turned . . . Step by Step . . . Inch by Inch . . . ,’” Fast Company, May 2003, 72. (back to text)
5. Amanda Ripley, “Shadow of a Falling Star,” Time, March 10, 2003, 56. (back to text)
6. Dale Witherington, “The Lifebuilders’s Creed,” e-mail to author, 24 April 2003. (back to text)
7. Karen Kenyon, “Oscar Wilde: One of the Greatest Wits of the Victorian Age, Wilde Fell Victim of the Harsh Justice of His Day,” British Heritage, http://britishhistory.about.com/library (accessed April 17, 2003). (back to text)
8. Oscar Wilde, De Profundus, 1905, www.upword.com/wilde/de_profundis (accessed May 8, 2003). (back to text)
Chapter 2
1. John Wooden with Steve Jamison, Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court (Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1997), 11-12. (back to text)
2. Wooden, Wooden, 64. (back to text)
3. Swen Nader, used by permission. (back to text)
Chapter 3
1. Armand M. Nicholi Jr., The Question of God: C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life (New York: Free Press, 2002), 109. (back to text)
2. Ibid., 102. (back to text)
3. Ibid., 110. (back to text)
4. Denis Waitley, The Winner’s Edge (New York: Berkley, 1983). (back to text)
5. Ecclesiastes 5:10 NKJV. (back to text)
6. John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2001), 107-8. (back to text)
7. Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins, It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life (New York: Berkley Books, 2000), 257. (back to text)
8. Ibid., 27. (back to text)
9. Ibid., 50. (back to text)
10. Ibid., 110. (back to text)
11. Ibid., 95. (back to text)
12. “Lance Armstrong: Champion Cyclist Beats Testicular Cancer,” www.abcnews.go.com/sections/living/Daily News, February 16, 1999. (back to text)
13. Armstrong, Not About the Bike, 185. (back to text)
14. Ibid., 114. (back to text)
15. Ibid., 257. (back to text)
Chapter 4
1. R. C. Gano, “Howard Robard Hughes, Sr.,” The Handbook of Texas Online, www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/ HH/fhu16.html (accessed July 24, 2003). (back to text)
2. Michael Sauter, “Howard Hughes: Billionaire, Daredevil, Playboy, Madman,” Biography, August 2003, 68. (back to text)
3. “Howard Hughes,” Las Vegas Strip History Site, www.lvstriphistory.com/hughe.htm (accessed July 24, 2003). (back to text)
4. Adapted, original source unknown. (back to text)
5. Myers Barnes, “Executive Time Management: A Guaranteed Solution,” Housing Zone, www.housingzone.com/topics/hz/sales/ hz01ea605.asp (accessed July 25, 2003). (back to text)
6. Target Marketing, April 1996. (back to text)
7. Alec Mackenzie, The Time Trap (New York: Amacom, 1997). (back to text)
8. “Betsy Rogers Wins 2002 National Teacher of the Year,” www.talkingproud.us/Education043003.html (accessed May 12, 2003). (back to text)
9. www.alsde.edu/general/Rogers_Application.htm. (back to text)
10. “Betsy Rogers,” www.talkingproud.com. (back to text)
11. Mary Orndorff, “Leeds Educator Named National Teacher of the Year,” Birmingham News, April 29, 2003, 2A. (back to text)
12. Gannett News Service, “Teacher of the Year Urges Focus on Helping Poor Children,” Tucson Citizen, May 5, 2003, www.tucsoncitizen.com. (back to text)
13. www.alsde.edu/general/Rogers_Application.htm. (back to text)
Chapter 5
1. “Leading Causes of Death—2000,” and “International Cardiovascular Disease Statistics,” American Heart Association, Statistical Fact Sheets, www.americanheart.org (accessed July 18, 2003). (back to text)
2. Bernie S. Siegel, Peace, Love and Healing (New York: HarperCollins, 1995). (back to text)
3. “UC Berkeley Epidemiologist Wins Olympic Medal for Studies Showing Exercise Protects against Heart Disease,” news release, July 1, 1994, University of California Berkeley Public Information Office, www.berkeley.edu/news (accessed December 8, 2003). (back to text)
4. “Idols Among Us,” www.actionforlife.com/fitness.htm (accessed May 8, 2003). (back to text)
5. “Jack LaLanne,” 2003, Interview, Bottom Line Personal, February 15, 2003, 14. (back to text)
6. Ibid. (back to text)
7. “Jack LaLanne,” 2002, Interview by Dick Foley, Health Talk, www.healthtalk.com/celb/lalanne/02.html (accessed May 7, 2003). (back to text)
8. Ibid. (back to text)
9. Dennis Hughes, “An Interview with Jack LaLanne,” September 26, 2002, www.shareguide.com/LaLanne.html (accessed May 7, 2003). (back to text)
10. Dinah Gold, “10 Ways to Save Your Life: Practical Advice from the Surgeon General,” Biography, August 2003, 60-65. (back to text)
11. Sanjay Gupta, “Why Men Die Young,” Time, May 12, 2003, 84. (back to text)
Chapter 6
1. “The Jukes in 1915,” Disability History Museum, www.disabilitymuseum.org/lib/docs/759.htm (accessed April 4, 2003). (back to text)
2. “Jonathan Edwards: America’s Humble Giant,” Christian History Institute, www.gospelcom.net/chi/glimpsef/glimpses/glmp097.shtml (accessed April 28, 2003). (back to text)
3. Ted Goodman, ed., The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (New York: Black Dog and Leventhal, 1997), 407. (back to text)
4. Samuel Osherson, Finding Our Fathers: The Unfinished Business of Manhood (New York: Free Press, 1986). (back to text)
5. Nick Stinnet, USA Today, January 29, 1986. (back to text)
6. “Building a Better Dad,” Today’s Health and Wellness, 26. (back to text)
7. “New Report Sheds Light on Trends and Patterns in Marriage, Divorce, and Cohabitation,” National Center for Health Statistics, www.cdc.gov/hchs/releases/02news/div_mar_cobah.htm (accessed June 19, 2003). (back to text)
8. “Profile for United States: Indicators of Child Well Being,” Kids Count, www.aecf.org (accessed June 19, 2003). (back to text)
9. Matthew Cooper, “Going to Chapel,” Time, June 10, 2002, 31. (back to text)
10. Executive Leadership Foundation, Inc., Absolute Ethics: A Proven System of True Profitability (Tucker, GA, 1987), 18. (back to text)
11. Ron Suskind, “Mrs. Hughes Takes Her Leave,” Esquire, July 2002, www.esquire.com. (back to text)
12. Richard Dunham, “Karen Hughes and the Courage to Quit,” BusinessWeek, April 29, 2002, www.businessweek.com. (back to text)
13. Suskind, “Hughes.” (back to text)
14. Ibid. (back to text)
15. Bob Costantini, “The President’s Right-Hand Woman: Hughes Decides to Leave the White House,” www.evote.com/features/2002-04/042402hughes.asp (accessed April 9, 2003). (back to text)
16. Ibid. (back to text)
17. Suskind, “Hughes.” (back to text)
Chapter 7
1. “Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, Inc.” http://shop.store. yahoo.com/scripophily/greatatandpa1.html (accessed August 19, 2003). (back to text)
2. Avis H. Anderson, A&P: The Story of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2002), 63. (back to text)
3. William I. Walsh, The Rise and Decline of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (New Jersey: Lyle Stuart, Inc., 1986), 77, quoted in Jim Collins, Good to Great (New York: Harper Business, 2001), Chapter 2, note 2, 269. (back to text)
4. Jim Collins, Good to Great (New York: Harper Business, 2001), 67. (back to text)
5. Ibid. (back to text)
6. Ibid., 259-60. (back to text)
7. “The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc. Announces Results of First Quarter 2003,” Press Release, July 25, 2003, http://biz. yahoo.com/bw/030725/255096_1.html (accessed August 19, 2003). (back to text)
8. Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing (New York: Pocket Books, 1994). (back to text)
9. Adapted from “The Matter of Fax,” Clay Road Baptist Church, April 23, 1999. (back to text)
10. Gerald Nadler, Breakthrough Thinking (Roseville, CA: Prima Lifestyles, 1994). (back to text)
11. Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking (New York: Ballantine Book, 1996). (back to text)
12. James Allen, As a Man Thinketh (Camarillo, CA). (back to text)
13. Leadership, Spring 2001, 83. (back to text)
14. John C. Maxwell, Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work (New York: Warner Books, 2003). (back to text)
15. Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Instructions on the Writing Life (Landover Hills, MD: Anchor, 1995). (back to text)
16. Leadership, Spring 2001, 84. (back to text)
17. Philippians 4:8 NRSV. (back to text)
18. Rebecca Murray, “The Real Antwone Fisher Talks About the Movie, ‘Antwone Fisher,’” http://romanticmovies.about.com/library/ weekly/aaantwonefisherintc.htm (accessed July 25, 2003). (back to text)
19. Antwone Quenton Fisher with Mim Eichler Rivas, Finding Fish (New York: Perennial, 2001), 122. (back to text)
20. Ibid., 125. (back to text)
21. Ibid., 127. (back to text)
22. Rebecca Murray, “The Real Antwone Fisher.” (back to text)
Chapter 8
1. Lewis Early, “Mickey Mantle Mini-Biography,” www.themick.com (accessed July 29, 2003). (back to text)
2. Ibid. (back to text)
3. Jack Mann, “Decline and Fall of a Dynasty,” Mantle Remembered (New York: Warner Books, 1995), 79. (back to text)
4. Mickey Mantle with Jill Lieber, “Time in a Bottle,” Sports Illustrated, April 18, 1994, 69. (back to text)
5. Ibid., 74. (back to text)
6. “A Baseball Reader’s Journal: Mickey Mantle: America’s Prodigal Son,” www.baseball-almanac.com/books (accessed July 29, 2003). (back to text)
7. Mickey Mantle with Jill Lieber, “Time in a Bottle,” 77. (back to text)
8. Bob Costas, “Eulogy for Mickey Mantle, August 15, 1995—Dallas, TX,” www.themick.com (accessed July 29, 2003). (back to text)
9. Frederic F. Flach, Choices: Coping Creatively with Personal Change (New York/Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1977). (back to text)
10. “The Fall of France,” www.leesaunders.com/html/FoFrance.htm (accessed August 15, 2003). (back to text)
11. Winston Churchill, The Wit and Wisdom of Winston Churchill, edited by James C. Humes (New York: Harper Perennial, 1994), 121. (back to text)
12. Henry W. Longfellow, “The Ladder of St. Augustine.” (back to text)
13. Warren Wiersbe, In Praise of Plodders (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1991). (back to text)
14. Arthur Gordon, A Touch of Wonder (Jove Publications, 1991). (back to text)
15. www.nytimes.com/learning/students/scholarship/index.html (accessed August 15, 2003). (back to text)
16. “Succeeding on Her Own,” ABC News, December 17, 1999, www.abcnews.go.com/onair/2020/2020_991217_homelessscholarship_feature.html (accessed April 24, 2003). (back to text)
17. “A Chat with Homeless to Harvard Inspiration Liz Murray,” April 11, 2003, www.lifetimetv.com/community/chat/lizmurray_transcript.html (accessed April 24, 2003). (back to text)
18. Randy Kennedy, “Six Whose Path to Excellence Was on the Mean Streets of Adversity,” New York Times, March 3, 1999, www.nytimes.com/learning/students/scholarship/scholarship1.html (accessed July 28, 2003). (back to text)
19. “A Chat With Homeless to Harvard Inspiration Liz Murray.” (back to text)
Chapter 9
1. William Atkinson, “Drowning in Debt,” HR, August 2001, www.findarticles.com (accessed July 22, 2003). (back to text)
2. Christine Dugas, “Bankruptcy Filings Set Record in 2002,” USA Today, February 17, 2003, www.usatoday.com. (back to text)
3. Christine Dugas, “Bankruptcy Filings on Record Pace,” USA Today, August 27, 2001, www.usatoday.com. (back to text)
4. Dugas, “Set Record in 2002.” (back to text)
5. Christine Dugas, “Debt Woes Nearing Record,” USA Today, November 26, 2002, www.usatoday.com. (back to text)
6. Dugas, “Bankruptcy Filings on Record Pace.” (back to text)
7. Dugas, “Debt Woes.” (back to text)
8. William Atkinson, “Drowning in Debt.” (back to text)
9. Ibid. (back to text)
10. James Patterson and Peter Kim, The Day America Told the Truth: What People Really Believe About Everything That Really Matters (Prentice Hall, 1991). (back to text)
11. Polly LaBarre, “How to Lead a Rich Life,” Fast Company, March 2003, 74. (back to text)
12. Proverbs 22:7 NASB. (back to text)
13. Quoted in Leslie E. Royale, “Debt Free is the Way to Be,” Black Enterprise, October 2002, www.findarticles.com (accessed July 22, 2003). (back to text)
14. Ibid. (back to text)
15. Quoted in Ron Blue’s seminars from USA Today, January 7, 1997. (back to text)
16. James Surowiecki, “People of Plenty,” Fast Company, March 2003, 32. (back to text)
17. Robert Frick, “If You Knew Suze . . .” Kiplinger’s, November 1998, www.findarticles.com (accessed July 22, 2003). (back to text)
18. Lynn Andriani, “The Dollars and Sense of Suze Orman,” Publisher’s Weekly, February 24, 2003, 44. (back to text)
19. Frick, “If You Knew Suze.” (back to text)
20. Suze Orman, The Laws of Money, The Lessons of Life (New York: Free Press, 2003), 11. (back to text)
21. Ibid., 13. (back to text)
22. Andriani, “Dollars and Sense,” 47. (back to text)
Chapter 10
1. Unknown, “The Ship,” in The Columbia Granger’s Index to Poetry in Anthologies, Nicholas Frankovich, ed. (New York: Columbia UP, 1997), 520. (back to text)
2. Source unknown. (back to text)
3. Harold G. Koenig, Ellen Idler, and Stanislav Kasl, “Religion, Spirituality, and Medicine: A Rebuttal To Skeptics,” International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 29-2, 1999, 123-31, www.eathingbythebook.com (accessed June 24, 2003). (back to text)
4. Christopher Reeve, speech at the 1996 Democratic National Convention, August 26, 1996, www.lib.uchicago.edu/nrd13/hd/ reeve.html. (back to text)
5. John Noble Wilford, “Oldest Planet Is Revealed, Challenging Old Theories,” New York Times, July 11, 2003, www.nytimes.com. (back to text)
6. James 4:8 NIV. (back to text)
7. “Shuttle Commander Called ‘True American Hero,’” CNN, February 2, 2003, www.cnn.com/2003/US/02/01/sprj.colu.shuttle.husband/index.html. (back to text)
8. Chris Kridler, “Husband Had Dreams of Space Since He Was a Child,” USA Today, February 1, 2003, www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-02-01-husband-bio_x.htm. (back to text)
9. Evelyn Husband, interview by Katie Couric, Today show, February 3, 2003, National Broadcasting System. (back to text)
10. Ibid. (back to text)
Chapter 11
1. “Armand Hammer Dead at 92; Industrialist and Philanthropist,” USA Today, December 11, 1990, pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/56038152.html (accessed July 23, 2003). (back to text)
2. “Armand Hammer Dies; Billionaire, Art Patron, Industrialist,” Los Angeles Times, December 11, 1990, www.latimes.com (accessed July 31, 2003). (back to text)
3. Edward Jay Epstein, Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer (New York: Random House, 1996), 128. (back to text)
4. Joel Stein, “Bosses from Hell,” Time, December 7, 1998, www.time. com. (back to text)
5. Epstein, Dossier, 7. (back to text)
6. Ibid., 17. (back to text)
7. Ibid., 349. (back to text)
8. Robert Hughes, “America’s Vainest Museum,” Time, January 28, 1991, www.time.com. (back to text)
9. John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2001), 1. (back to text)
10. Donald O. Clifton and Paula Nelson, Soar with Your Strengths (New York: Dell, 1996). (back to text)
11. Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1936). (back to text)
12. Tom Peters and Nancy Austin, A Passion for Excellence: The Leadership Difference (New York: Warner Books, 1989). (back to text)
13. Leo Buscaglia, Loving Each Other: The Challenge of Human Relationships (New York: Ballantine, 1990). (back to text)
14. “Bill Bright: A Life Lived Well,” Campus Crusade for Christ, http://billbright.ccci.org/staff/multimedia, 2. (back to text)
15. Harvard Business Review, November/December 1995. (back to text)
Chapter 12
1. “J(ean) Paul Getty,” www.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=21530 (accessed May 9, 2003). (back to text)
2. Clifton Daniel, ed., “Billionaire J. Paul Getty Dies in Britain,” Chronicle of the 20th Century (Liberty, MO: JL International Publishing, 1992), 1110. (back to text)
3. “What Else Happened Today: December 15,” www.historychannelcom/tdih/today/1215.html (accessed May 9, 2003). (back to text)
4. “Sir J Paul Getty Dead at age 70,” www.msnbc.com/news, April 17, 2003. (back to text)
5. Ruth Smeltzer, quoted in Erik Kolball, What Jesus Meant (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003). (back to text)
6. Proverbs 11:24-25 The Message. (back to text)
7. Matthew 6:21 NIV. (back to text)
8. “Numbers,” Time, January 13, 2003, 17. (back to text)
9. “Numbers,” Time, December 6, 2002, 21. (back to text)
10. U.S. News and World Report, December 22, 1997. (back to text)
11. “Dave Thomas Praised in Senate for Adoption Advocacy,” February 1, 2002, Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, www.davethomasfoundationforadoption.org (accessed August 8, 2003). (back to text)
12. Bruce Horovitz, “Wendy’s Icon Back at Work But Scare Makes Chain Consider the Inevitable,” USA Today, March 31, 1997, http://pqasb. pqarchiver.com/USAToday, July 23, 2003. (back to text)
13. Dottie Enrico, “Roots of Ambition Childhood Experiences of Orphaned, Adopted Ignite Drive to Thrive,” USA Today, September 5, 1997, http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday (accessed July 23, 2003). (back to text)
14. Dave Thomas, “In His Words,” www.wendys.com/dave/flash.html (accessed August 8, 2003). (back to text)
15. Dave Thomas with Ron Beyma, Well Done! (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1994), 203. (back to text)
16. Linda D. Reeves, “Wendy’s Adoption Plan Hits Home with Thomas,” USA Today, August 31, 1992, http://pqasb.pqarchiver. com/USAToday (accessed July 23, 2003). (back to text)
17. “Wendy’s Founder Passes Away,” January 8, 2002, Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, www.davethomasfoundationforadoption. org (accessed August 8, 2003). (back to text)
18. Horovitz, “Wendy’s Icon Back,” (back to text)
Chapter 13
1. Erin McClam, “Waksal Sentenced to Prison,” Atlanta Journal- Constitution, June 11, 2003, D1. (back to text)
2. “The ImClone Scandal,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 11, 2003, D4. (back to text)
3. “Chronology of a Collapse,” Time, January 21, 2002, 31. (back to text)
4. “Hall of Shame,” BusinessWeek, October 7, 2002, www.businessweek.com. (back to text)
5. “World-Class Scandal at WorldCom,” CBS News, June 26, 2002, www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/06/26/national. (back to text)
6. Constance L. Hays, “Martha Stewart Indicted by U.S. on Obstruction,” New York Times, June 5, 2003, www.nytimes.com. (back to text)
7. J. Oswald Sanders, Spiritual Leadership. (back to text)
8. Roger Dow, ICSA Journal. (back to text)
9. Associated Press, “Tyco’s Kozlowski Took Hard Line Against Embezzling Crimes,” Seattle Times, January 1, 2003, www.seattletimes.com. (back to text)
10. Barbara Ross, Roberty Gearty, and Corky Siemaszko, “The Great Tyco Robbery,” New York Daily News, September 12, 2002, www.nydailynews.com. (back to text)
11. Ken Blanchard and Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Ethical Management (New York: William Morrow, 1988). (back to text)
Chapter 14
1. Peter Drucker, Quotes on Focus, www.leadershipnow.com (accessed November 24, 2003). (back to text)
2. Mike Abrashoff, It’s Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy (New York: Warner Books, 2002). (back to text)
3. “From Poverty to Public Health Expert,” Biography, August 2003, 61. (back to text)
4. Ibid. (back to text)
5. National Medical Fellowships, www.nmf-online.org/Development/ scholars/PrintVersion/richard_carmona.htm (accessed August 14, 2003). (back to text)
6. “From Poverty,” Biography. (back to text)
7. Robert Pear, “A Man of Many Professions: Richard Henry Carmona,” Puerto Rico Herald, March 27, 2002, www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2002/vol16n13/Carmona-en.shtml (accessed July 29, 2003). (back to text)
8. National Medical Fellowships, www.nmfonline.org (accessed August 14, 2003). (back to text)