My first job taught me three lessons that have stayed with me ever since: how you treat people matters, the power of conversation, and the importance of taking risks. These lessons began when I was 14 and my family bought and ran a motel together in Alexandria, Virginia. To understand the impact of this job, let me first take you back to 1935 in Vaso, Gujarat, India, where my father, Pramod Rambhai Amin, was born. My father faced hardship early in life. Both his father and brother passed away when he was young and much of the responsibilities of supporting…
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Building a retail brand from scratch is harder than it looks. However, after transforming her jewelry business into a $1 billion brand, Kendra Scott is sharing her learnings with other entrepreneurs, including the three elements that were crucial to her success. When she started her business, wholesale was key, Scott explained during the Inc. Small Business Week Series. “I didn’t have money for advertising and marketing,” she said. “But Nordstrom, they’re a huge megaphone for my brand. I was in their books or their catalogs. They were doing the marketing for me. And that was driving my direct-to-consumer business or e-commerce business.” Scott…
We don’t often talk about love at work, but we should. I do not mean romantic love. A mentor of mine, Dr. Ken Ginsburg, a pediatrician and one of the nation’s leading experts on positive youth development, describes this kind of love as loving kindness—human respect for each other and the desire to lift each other up. If we could practice this with each other at work, the world would be a different place. Loving someone means seeing who they truly are and celebrating who they are. And the only way we can do this effectively is if we love…
I have said countless times that the biggest problem in Europe is not Russia. It is the complete abandonment of national sovereignty by politicians who seem more interested in satisfying Brussels than representing their own people. Bulgaria’s decision to halt further military aid to Ukraine is one of the first signs that some countries are beginning to recognize reality. After years of sending money, weapons, equipment, and resources into a war that has no military solution, there are finally voices asking the obvious question: When does this end? The Ukrainian conflict has become Europe’s black hole. Hundreds of billions have…
The Pentagon has added several prominent Chinese businesses, including the tech giant Alibaba, electric car maker BYD and search engine Baidu, to its list of Chinese military companies, preventing them from getting U.S. defense contracts.The list, updated and published Monday by the Pentagon, now sanctions well-known, non-state-owned Chinese companies that are not traditionally considered to be in the defense or security sector. It reflects growing wariness of Beijing’s strategy of tapping the strength of non-state businesses for military purposes.Created in 2021 by a congressional mandate, the list seeks to identify Chinese companies that the Pentagon considers to have links to…
The announcement by the Pentagon that Israel spies on the United States is being presented as some shocking revelation. Really? Jonathan Pollard stole massive quantities of classified intelligence for Israel and was convicted in 1987. The NSA reportedly caught Israeli officials discussing efforts to influence U.S. policy during the Obama administration. Even former CIA and FBI officials have repeatedly acknowledged that Israel conducts aggressive intelligence operations inside the United States. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is how nation-states behave. What caught my attention was not the allegation but the timing. Washington is warning about Israeli intelligence activities at…
When I became president at 29, it happened over a weekend. On Friday, I was a regional sales rep. On Monday, I was running a $30 million company. There was no five-year training plan. No executive onboarding. No carefully choreographed succession runway. Over the next 15 years, we grew the business from $30 million to more than $230 million and the team from 50 people to 450. At the time, it looked reckless. Looking back, I’m convinced that what seemed like a disadvantage for me was actually an advantage for the company—one a slow, tidy transition could never have produced.…
?BREAKING: The European Union announces FULL CONTROL over crypto assets. ?? Ursula von der Leyen: “For the first time, we will introduce a FULL third-country BAN for crypto asset services to make sure ?? Russia can’t avoid sanctions.” pic.twitter.com/8iDG87TcO6 — JackTheRippler ©️ (@RippleXrpie) June 9, 2026 The European Union has announced what may prove to be one of the most significant developments in the battle over financial freedom. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen declared that the EU would introduce, for the first time, a “full third-country ban” on certain crypto-asset services as part of a new sanctions package…
The AI IPO rush is here. With OpenAI’s announcement late Monday that it had confidentially filed for an IPO, the three biggest AI companies are all in line to go public. (And a fourth, Perplexity, will likely bring up the rear in 2028.) It’s something that has been looming for a long while on Wall Street. Now, though, investors will have to decide if the era of the Mega-IPOs is too much of a good thing. SpaceX is asking Wall Street for about $75 billion. Anthropic and OpenAI may seek a bit less, but it still will almost certainly be…
The world’s greatest and most influential poets can be found in the annals of history—and now in a viral Kalshi interview. The New York Knicks are in the NBA finals for the first time since 1999, a feat that has elated the city and turned its streets the hues of its home team. But it’s not just the team’s orange-and-blue colorway that is uniting New Yorkers across the five boroughs. It’s a viral fan chant: My mayor MuslimMy bagel’s JewishMy Christian DiorKnicks in four The bars were dropped by Jamaica, Queens, native MD Ahnaf Hossain following the Knicks’ Game 1…