About the Author:
James P. Spivak was born the mill town of Mckeesport, Pennsylvania, Jim readily admits he was a big dreamer, a quitter and dismal failure for most of his early years. On Dec. 12, 1971, after the loss of a job, a failed marriage, and a humiliating bankruptcy, the uncovered - one half - of a little known secret of success. A secret, clearly hidden within the pages of Napoleon Hill's famous book "Think and Grow Rich." With the limited knowledge he asquired, Jim's life immediately changed. Miraculously - within 30 days after putting the secret to the acid test, a decade old chronic back pain as a teen put Jim in a upper body cast and a fifteen year addiction to nasal sprays completely disappeared. And if that weren't enough, ninety days later, Jim was earning more money each month than he ever did in an entire year. His life was transformed to the very brink of fame and fortune, only to lose it all again a few years later. Although his physical pains never again reappeared, his financial story was somewhat different; it became a never-ending spiral of rags to riches and back again. Armed with only one-half of the secret, Jim statred a dozen corperations including three manufacturing companies and a top of the line pasta restaurant called "J-Paul Sgetti's." Finally, he founded with his son Paul the fastest frowing speedboat company in the world. Two years Jim was to lose everything again. After the last heartbreaking failure, Jim moved to Florida and took two years to reflect on his mistakes, determined to find the other half of the secert, - the missing link - that somehow he overlocked. Upon his startling discovery of the missing piece to the puzzle of success, Jim realized thousands upon thousands of other people, just like himself, have been going through the same merry-go-round spiral to nowhere. With his mind firmly made up to change his life forever, and in a dedicated effort to help berter the lives of other men and women willing to take the time to study and learn Jim spent another year with the tedious planning, detailing, and writing of "Dare To Be Great". Jim died suddenly of a heart attack only three weeks before the printer had finished the first printing of "Dare To Be Great"'
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