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August 2018

  • When This Executive Was Fired, He Took Charge
  • Obeying The Speed Limit Has Never Been More Fun
  • London Black Cabs Helped Uber Grow
  • Bette Graham Created A Product To Fix Her Mistakes
  • Flamin' Hot Cheetos Had An Interesting Start

July 2018

  • Fear This Instead Of Failure
  • Re-Releasing Songs Created Success
  • A CEO's Purposeful Mistake
  • The Tardy Student And The Unsolvable Problem
  • Fixing Potholes Through Graffiti

June 2018

  • A Surprising Mistake In The Oxford English Dictionary
  • US Army Embraces Mistakes
  • Blocking A Hymn
  • Eddie Shore Was Truly A Tough Guy
  • [Video] Elon Musk Didn't "Pivot" He Failed

May 2018

  • 8 Examples of Mental Toughness Part 2
  • Necessity Turned Accessory: Allen Iverson's Sleeve
  • This Doctor Has Continued To Fail
  • 8 Examples of Mental Toughness
  • MIT Accidentally Creates New Smelting Process

April 2018

  • Johnny Cash Quit Singing Lessons
  • Cruise Control Came Out of Frustration
  • Time Spent Gaming Pays Off In The Navy
  • Rock Around The Clock Was a Commercial Failure
  • Sigmund Freud Should Have Been Discouraged

March 2018

  • Superman Couldn't Fly
  • This School Shares Failures
  • Jim Croce's Parents Hoped He Would Fail

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How Warehouse Stores Began

February 3rd, 2018 - by Alyssa Shea

Have you ever considered where stores get their merchandise? Is there just a store out there that’s a store for, well, stores?

Robert Price spoke with hosts, Robert Smith and Jacob Goldstein, about this very idea in an NPR interview. He had opened a warehouse club store where other people could only shop if you owned a business. But the small businesses weren’t coming. So someone suggested allowing non-business owners to shop there, too.

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“And Price was afraid that it would alienate the business owners who were the true members of this club. And they he figured, you know, businesses aren’t really going for this anyway so let’s try it.”

Suddenly, their business was a success! One of their employees, Jim Cost, went on to start his own warehouse store. Thus, Costco was born! Sometimes, it means taking a risk to become successful!

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