Following Your Passion
When Debbi Fields decided twenty-five years ago to sell cookies for a living, having had what she calls a “passion” for cookies as a child, she was missing only four ingredients (pun intended). They were: (1) education, (2) business experience, (3) any kind of encouragement from her family, and (4) money. Other than that, Debbi was ready to go into business.
“I knew my disadvantages,” she said in a speech reported in the Huntsville Item (“Mrs. Fields Gives Recipe for Success,” by Emilie Hornack, July 14, 2004). “I was young, had no college credentials, and came from little means. I was blonde, and people figured I had no brains. Growing up, my sisters nicknamed me ‘Stupid.’ I love them dearly, and I know that happens in ...
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