Book excerpt: The author's story is a fascinating journey to success. Through his commitment, persistence, perseverance, and resilience he navigates through the peaks and valleys of an entrepreneur's journey. The lessons learned are as applicable to life's journey as they are to entrepreneurship. His story shows what can happen when you never give up. This is a real-life business adventure story that follows the journey of an immigrant to the U.S. who was told he "didn't know a damn thing about American business." But as opportunity would have it, a short time later he found himself an accidental entrepreneur with a front-row ticket to the ins and outs of launching and growing a business. He was flying high on his growing success-until a fateful moment when everything changed.