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Graduating high school in 1973, Bill Goss parked cars at Yankee Stadium and
worked as garbage man for a spell before buying an old Volvo for 80 bucks
and then driving it 2700 miles to a new job as a underground dynamiter in a
Arizona copper mine.
But ever since he was nine years old, Bill always had a dream.
A dream to travel a lot faster than the garbage truck he rode the back of
each morning as it went flying around the streets of Millburn-Short Hills,
New Jersey --- and a whole lot faster than the elevator that dropped him
5000' underneath the Arizona Desert.
A dream to go a whole lot faster --- faster than even the speed of sound ---
just like his hero Chuck Yeager did a few years before Bill was born.
Buy Bill Goss's Incredible Story
Okay --- you might have guessed it --- 20 years later --- at the controls of
a dual seat F-18 --- Bill Goss went on to fulfill that dream by blasting
through the sound barrier off the coast of Florida.
And you might have even guessed he would earn enough money as a garbage man,
an underground dynamiter and a Navy man to start college, continue on to an
MBA and even attend the Harvard Business School Executive Education Program
in Boston.
And if you guessed those two things correctly, well, then you really are a
pretty good guesser.
But rest assured, you will never guess the other things that happened to
Bill Goss --- so many other things --- that earned him the unique nicknames
of "Mr. Lucky" from The London Sun and "The Unconventional Wisdom Winner"
from The Washington Post.
A few years ago Bill wrote a book called The Luckiest Unlucky Man Alive.
It received lengthy and favorable reviews in the Los Angeles Times, The
Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The Seattle Times, The Detroit News,
The New Jersey Star Ledger, The Houston Chronicle, The San Francisco
Examiner, The Dallas-Fort Worth Star Telegram, Florida Today, The Daily
Word, The Las Vegas Review Journal, The Chattanooga Times, The St.
Petersburg Times, The Florida Times Union, Maxim Magazine, The London Sun
and countless other national and international publications.
Since then Bill Goss has been a featured guest on hundreds of popular radio
and television shows around the world including The Discovery Channel's
Animal Planet, EXTRA, Maury Povich, Sally Jesse, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, Ted
Nugent in Detroit and Rick Dees in Los Angeles. He even worked with actress
Demi Moore as an extra in the movie GI Jane.
And he's the only man alive to have successfully survived a live interview
on both The Howard Stern Show AND The 700 Club.
Now that's not only adversity --- that's diversity.
As a speaker, Bill Goss's upbeat, inspiring and sometimes hilarious message
on how to overcome great challenges and adversity appeals to an extremely
wide-ranging audience. These audiences has included the people of Great
Britain, Germany, Malaysia, Israel, Australia, China and Japan, as well in
the United States and Canada and with other speakers such as Bob Dole.
As he shares with you his personal lessons from the School of Hard Knocks
--- and we've all attending that school at one time or another --- you are
certain to be entertained, educated, and feel more motivated and inspired
than you have in a long, long time.
Because Bill Goss inspires you to never quit, no matter how bad things might
look for you at the moment.
To never quit, because things are guaranteed to get better for you if you
just keep moving forward by believing in yourself.
- If you believe you are lucky --- you are lucky.
- And if you believe you are unlucky --- you are unlucky.
It doesn't matter what other people think of you.
All that matters is what YOU think of YOU.
And this isn't theory for Bill Goss --- it's the story of his life.
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| “Lt. Commander Goss, your commitment and dedication have been an inspiration for those who follow in your footsteps, and for all Americans who join me today in saluting you for a job extremely 'well done.' " |
George W. Bush |
| "After hearing you speak, I felt like I could take on just about anything in my life. Your stories spoke to everyone in the room." |
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Annis Mackin |
| "Cancer, mine cave-ins, automobile and airplane smash-ups, a near-drowning in a bathroom sink --- why is it that Bill Goss’ life seems like so much fun? |
Will Blythe |
