Thursday, September 5, 2013

Your Present Circumstances...





"Your present circumstances don't determine
 where you can go;  they merely determine
 where you start."  ~ Nido Qubein 

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nido Qubein is a businessman, motivational speaker, and President of High Point University since 2005. He received his Associate's Degree in Business from Mount Olive College, where he was a member of ΔΠΔ (Delta Pi Delta) fraternity. He earned his Bachelor's Degree in Human Relations from High Point University in 1970, and his Master of Science in Business Education degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Bryan School of Business & Economics in 1973; in 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters in Humanity degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Qubein is the Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the National Speakers Association Foundation. He has served as Chairman of the Great Harvest Bread Company since 2001 and on the Board of Directors of BB&T since 1990 and La-Z-Boy Corporation since 2006.

Qubein was born the youngest of 5 children in 1948 and is of Lebanese and Jordanian descent.  He came to the United States in 1966. He is a Christian.



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