The recipe for achievement: Wally Amos has cooked up many successes with the power of positive thinking.

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The recipe for achievement: Wally Amos has cooked up many successes with the power of positive thinking.

For someone who has spent much of his adult life sharing the benefits of a good attitude, Wally Amos surprisingly grew up surrounded by negativity. He spent his early years in relative poverty in the "colored" section of Tallahassee, Fla., during the late 1930s and '40s. His mother, Ruby, worked as a domestic servant her whole life. Despite that, she had high expectations of her son, and never forgot to remind him when he didn't measure up. Though Amos suffered frequent criticism and a firm hand, the value of discipline and hard work he learned from his mother helped him later in lif...

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