Start Where You Are
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âGardner is encouraging us all to start where we are and dare to make our lives bigger and stronger, more satisfactory, and better. Chris Gardner is a knockout!â
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 Chris Gardnerâs astonishing memoirâthe phenomenal New York Times bestseller, The Pursuit of Happyness, which inspired the film of the same name starring Will Smithâserved as a shining beacon of hope for countless people. In Start Where You Are, âa book that teaches you how to transform the impossible into the possibleâ (Sidney Poitier), Gardner offers indispensible life lessons in getting from where you are to where you want to be.
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Chris Gardner is the Chief Executive of Gardner Rich & Company, a multimillion-dollar brokerage with offices in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. An avid philanthropist and motivational speaker, Gardner is committed to many organizationsâparticularly those related to educationâand was recently the recipient of the âFather of the Year Awardâ from the National Fatherhood Initiative. A Milwaukee native, Gardner has two children and resides in Chicago and New York.
Mim Eichler Rivas is the author of the acclaimed Beautiful Jim Key, as well as the coauthor of more than eighteen books, including The Pursuit of Happyness and Finding Fish with Antwone Fisher.
