Both authors knew early on that they wanted to be part of the business world.

Fulbright remembers hearing stories of her grandparents in the early 1930's and 1940's running a restaurant and a small neighborhood "viewing theatre." Fulbright's first sale was a one-cent book she crafted from construction paper and held together with staples that she sold to a fellow classmate when she was 6 years old.

Roman saw first hand through his father's small concrete finishing company how to run a business. Roman's first sale was catalog sales of merchandise at age 10.