Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in Chicago, Illinois, to Elias and Flora Disney. Raised on a farm in Marceline, Missouri, young Walt developed a love for drawing and storytelling early on. Despite a tough childhood marked by his father’s strictness and financial struggles, Walt found escape in drawing animals and imagining… Continue reading That’s the real trouble with the world. Too many people grow up!
Innovators
From the spark of invention to the fire of enterprise, these are the minds that turned vision into reality!
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration!
In the glow of a gas lamp in the small town of Milan, Ohio, a boy was born who would one day set the world alight. Thomas Alva Edison was not born with privilege, but with an insatiable curiosity. Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847 into a modest family in Milan, Ohio. He… Continue reading Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration!
The First Flight of the Wright Flyer!
On the flat streets of Dayton, Ohio, in the late 19th century, two brothers grew up in a modest household filled with books, tools, and curiosity. Wilbur, born in 1867, was calm, analytical, and intense. Orville, born in 1871, was inventive, playful, and restless. Their father, a bishop, filled their home with ideas, while their… Continue reading The First Flight of the Wright Flyer!
If you can dream it, you can do it!
Enzo Ferrari was an Italian motor racing driver, engineer, and entrepreneur who founded the legendary Ferrari automobile marque. A towering figure in the history of motorsports, he transformed his passion for speed into one of the world’s most iconic brands. He was born on February 20, 1898, in Modena, Italy, to a modest family with… Continue reading If you can dream it, you can do it!
To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success!
Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863, in a small farmhouse near Dearborn, Michigan. The eldest of six children, he grew up on his family’s farm, but from a young age, his fascination lay not in the plow but in the mechanics of moving machines. At 12, he saw his first steam-powered tractor —… Continue reading To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success!