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Most CelebrityPress® titles are available at special quantity discounts for bulk purchases for sales promotions, premiums, fundraising, and educational use. Special versions or book excerpts can also be created to fit specific needs. For more information, please write: CelebrityPress® 520 N. Orlando Ave, #2 Winter Park, FL 32789 or call 1.877.261.4930 Visit us online at: www.CelebrityPressPublishing.com CelebrityPress® Winter Park, Florida CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 QUESTIONS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANSWERS By Larry King .................................................................................... 13 CHAPTER 2 PUBLIC SPEAKING: HOW TO ACHIEVE MAXIMUM AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT By Mohamed Isa .............................................................................. 23 CHAPTER 3 THE INTERVIEW THAT, SADLY, NEVER WAS By John Parks Trowbridge M.D., FACAM ..........................................31 CHAPTER 4 WHY DO THE BIG GET BIGGER? By Rebecca Crownover ...................................................................47 CHAPTER 5 THE KEYS TO SUCCESS By Patricia Delinois ........................................................................... 57 CHAPTER 6 MY GRAND ENTRANCE By Shaunequa Jordan ...................................................................... 65 CHAPTER 7 WHY MUSIC MATTERS By Nina M. Kelly, Ph.D. .................................................................... 75 CHAPTER 8 HOW SAFE IS YOUR BUILDING? By Lance Luke .................................................................................. 83 CHAPTER 9 WHY YOU SHOULD GROW INTERNATIONALLY, BUILD FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE & NET WORTH, AND ENJOY FREEDOM IN LIFE By Albert Allen, MBA, DBA, PhD ..................................................... 93 CHAPTER 10 WHAT IF EVERYTHING YOU KNEW ABOUT VIDEO…WAS WRONG? By Greg Rollett ...............................................................................107 CHAPTER 11 SEVEN (7) RULES TO LIVE BY FOR RETIREMENT SECURITY - AVOIDING ANOTHER 2008 MARKET CRASH By Dan Ahmad CFP™, EA, ATA & Jim Files ....................................115 CHAPTER 12 MONEYBALL: A VALUE INVESTORS PERSPECTIVE By Christian G. Koch, CFP®, CPWA®, CDFA™, RICP® .....................131 CHAPTER 13 HOW DO I SUPERSIZE MY BUSINESS? - A MARVEL-OUS METHOD TO POWER UP YOUR PROFITS By JW Dicks and Nick Nanton ........................................................139 CHAPTER 14 THE “ONE” THING By Adam Hudson ............................................................................151 CHAPTER 15 HOW SUCCESS IS MEASURED By Lindsay Dicks .............................................................................157 CHAPTER 16 WHAT SHOULD I REALLY KNOW TO CREATE THE LIFE I'M DEEPLY CRAVING? By Dr. Kathleen Allard-Wasajja ........................................................167 CHAPTER 17 HOW TO SUSTAIN AND AMPLIFY LONG TERM SUCCESS By Juan Carlos Arzola, CHPC .........................................................179 CHAPTER 18 WHO ARE YOU? —AND WHAT’S IN YOUR RED WAGON… By Christine Marcello ......................................................................187 CHAPTER 19 LIFE IS GREAT By Dan Casey .................................................................................195 CHAPTER 20 WHAT IS MY PURPOSE? By Isabel Harkins ........................................................................... 203 CHAPTER 21 HOW CAN YOU BEAT THE HOUSE? —THREE STEPS TO HELPING EMPLOYERS SUCCESSFULLY REDUCE HEALTHCARE COSTS By John W. Sbrocco .......................................................................213 CHAPTER 22 CAN I HEAL AND CONNECT WITH THE UNIFIED FIELD? By Rosie Unite .................................................................................221 CHAPTER 23 THE CHEMISTRY OF REALIZING YOUR DREAMS —INSIGHTS FOR BEING A SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEUR By Bo Manry and Chris Goff .......................................................... 233 QUESTIONS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANSWERS CHAPTER 1 QUESTIONS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANSWERS BY LARRY KING I may be the world’s leading expert on questions. I’ve built my career around them for the last sixty-one years. I love questions. • Where are you from? • What is it like to do what you do? • Who is the most important person in the world to you? ... Why? • How did you get to where you are today? Questions are full of possibility. Questions can lead you to places and ideas you never imagined. Answers, on the other hand are finite. The end. Sure, answers can be useful and even comforting, but in my experience, all of the fun of life lies in questions. I began my broadcasting career on May 1, 1957 in a tiny radio station in Miami, Florida, and I have been on the air (or the television or the internet) as a host ever since that day. I’ve conducted over 50,000 interviews over the years, including every President since Richard Nixon. I’ve chatted with people from every walk of life: sports stars, actors, politicians, musicians, waiters, janitors, parents and even kids. I’ve discovered that successful people have certain things in common. First, they are passionate about their work. Work doesn’t feel like work 13 THE BIG QUESTION to them. They would do it even if they never got paid for it. Second, successful people are authentic. They are honest about who they are, their strengths and their weaknesses. Successful people put others first. They are more interested in others than they are in themselves. Finally, they are curious. Successful people look for new ways to think about the world, new ideas to improve their work and new opportunities for growth and understanding. They question everything. WHAT IS YOUR PASSION? Ever since I was five years old, I wanted to be in broadcasting. As a child, I would listen to the radio announcers and then run into another room in our house and repeat what the announcer said. I practiced getting the pacing and the inflection just right. The Shadow was one of my favorite radio shows: “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows…” I worshipped Red Barber, the 1940’s announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers. My buddies and I would go to Ebbets Field, where the Dodgers played, and buy inexpensive seats in the back row. Then I rolled up a scorecard and, in my best Red Barber voice, announced a play-by-play of the game for my friends. I loved to talk. I would “report” on anything: cars driving down the block, neighbors walking by. I never shut up. My nickname was Zeke the Creep, and the Mouthpiece. I was enamored with the whole world of communication. I never wanted to be anything else. I never wanted to do anything else. I wasn’t good at anything else, either. My father passed away when I was nine years old, so I worked from an early age to help my mother make ends meet. I had every job you can imagine, and I was terrible at almost all of them. I made hat bindings in a factory. I worked at Hearn’s department store in their collections department. Borden’s milk hired me to sell their products over the phone. I delivered packages to department stores all over Manhattan in the early days of the United Parcel Service. One of my jobs was as a mail boy for a company called Associated Merchandising. It was as interesting as it sounds. Our offices were in 14 QUESTIONS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANSWERS Manhattan on the third floor of a big office building. On the twenty-first floor of that same building was WOR, one of the biggest radio stations in New York. I was so eager to be a part of the radio business that I used to sneak out of my office on the third floor and take the elevator to WOR. I wanted to be a part of that world, even if it was only to ride the elevator up to their offices. Finally, I got a break. I was in the city with a friend who happened to know the Director of Announcers at CBS. We literally bumped into the guy walking down the street, and I asked him the question that would change my whole life. “I’d like to get into radio. I’m twenty-two years old. What should I do?” He told me to go to Miami. WAHR in Miami was a tiny radio station, and the only reason the general manager hired me was because I hung around the station every day for three weeks, hoping for my chance. One Friday morning, the GM called me into his office. He told me, “Tom Dale, the morning disc jockey, is leaving because he makes $55 a week and his alimony is $60. He finally figured out he ain’t making it. You start Monday morning.” I couldn’t believe it. I was going to be on the radio, hosting my own show from nine to noon in the morning and doing sports in the afternoon. Throughout that whole weekend, I couldn’t sleep. I picked out records to play. I practiced