{"id":1762,"date":"2013-09-05T19:53:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T19:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypno-erotica.com\/stories\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2013-09-05T19:53:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T19:53:50","slug":"lessons-from-the-purple-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypno-erotica.com\/stories\/lessons-from-the-purple-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from the Purple &#038; Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"blogs_entrylist\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"blog_entrylist_entry_date\"><strong> Posted by <a class=\"wp_init\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inraptured.net\/social\/profile\/GoddessMarquesa1\">Goddess Marquesa<\/a> <span class=\"timestamp\" title=\"Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:05:12 -0800\">February 20<\/span>, 2013<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"blog_entrylist_entry_body\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hypno-erotica.com\/stories\/assets\/Red-Top-Pendant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1470\" alt=\"Red Top Pendant\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hypno-erotica.com\/stories\/assets\/Red-Top-Pendant-150x111.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hypno-erotica.com\/stories\/assets\/Red-Top-Pendant-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hypno-erotica.com\/stories\/assets\/Red-Top-Pendant.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Hello:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On February 13th 2013, Jerry Buss, owner of the Los Angeles Lakers NBA basketball team passed on into eternity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">While listening to people reminisce about Dr. Buss, I realized this accomplished man exemplified many life lessons.\u00a0 Below are just a few of the noteworthy things about this outstanding man.<\/p>\n<p>+\u00a0 Jerry Buss grew up in poverty in a small town; earned a Ph.D.; was successful in chemistry, aerospace, and real estate investing; and used his skills, vision, and wealth to oversee transforming the L.A. Lakers into a global phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">+\u00a0 Dr. Buss gathered around him highly competent people of great character, provided them with the resources they needed, and gave them the freedom they needed to make the Lakers perennial champions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">+\u00a0 Jerry Buss enjoyed his careers and his (ahem) pleasures. <span style=\"font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;\"><span style=\"mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;\">J<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">+\u00a0 Mr. Buss loved his family and cherished his friends.\u00a0 And no matter who he was interacting with, he treated each person in ways that let them know and feel he was glad to know them and that they mattered to him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">+\u00a0 Dr. Jerry Buss groomed his children to handle the Lakers and his other businesses.\u00a0 And people like Magic Johnson say they owe a lot of their successes to what Jerry Buss taught them and modeled for them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n+\u00a0 This sports magnate was definitely a babe magnet.<\/p>\n<p>+\u00a0 He was as humble as he was successful.\u00a0 And he always gave credit where credit was due.<\/p>\n<p>+\u00a0 He did things most owners had never even thought to try to make going to a Lakers game an entertainment spectacular everyone would crave to enjoy.+\u00a0 He was as creatively innovative as he was scientifically logical.\u00a0 And he successfully merged both of those seemingly paradoxical sides of himself into his style of owning the Lakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;\">A little known fact.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>My past <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>live-in slave Alvin worked with jerry buss in the aerospace industry at TRW many years ago. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>And in the late 90\u2019s <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>we ran into him at the Palms.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\nIf I&#8217;d ever had the opportunity to persuade Dr. Buss to rapturously succumb, surrender, and submit to the passionate pleasures intoxicatingly inside falling under My myriads of sensualities sorceries spells&#8211;O! My!! MYYYYYYY!!!&#8220;`<br \/>\nAnd click this <a class=\"wp_init\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/jerry-buss-lakers-flamboyant-owner-dies-80-185037942--spt.html\">http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/jerry-buss-lakers-flamboyant-owner-dies-80-185037942&#8211;spt.html<\/a> link to read about and contemplate this extraordinary gentleman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">And here&#8217;s My question I hope You\/you will enjoy answering:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n???\u00a0 Which sports-related individual(s)\/team(s), event(s), or experience(s) do You\/you find especially memorable and why?<\/p>\n<p>Wonderizing Goddess Marquesa<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Goddess Marquesa February 20, 2013 \u00a0Hello: On February 13th 2013, Jerry Buss, owner of the Los Angeles Lakers NBA basketball team passed on into eternity. 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