"BELIEVE IN YOURSELF," POWELL SAYS

Football coach Lou Holtz said the secret to success lies in maintaining your
dreams and following them.

For casino owner Steve Wynn, success in life and business has nothing to do
with secrets. It has more to do with motivating people by making them feel
good about themselves.

Gen. Colin Powell found success in three phases of his life: first as a
soldier, then as an author and most recently by working with America's youth.

Holtz, Wynn and Powell were among 11 high-profile motivational speakers at
Peter Lowe's Success 1999 business seminar presented Thursday to more than
8,000 participants at the Thomas & Mack Center.

"Believe in yourself, build your self-esteem and don't let people put labels
on you," said Powell, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who
spent 35 years in the military and as national security adviser for
President Reagan.

These are the things he learned from his parents growing up as a poor black
kid in the Bronx, he told the audience.

Powell said he was recently honored by the Hasbro toy company, which
introduced a new G.I. Joe action figure in his image. He's giving his share
of profits from the toy to the Boys & Girls Club of America.

"Most young people are doing fine. They have good homes, good parents,
they're in good schools. They're on their way to success. But there may be
15 million youngsters not on that path to success," he said.

"I'm working with youngsters a little younger than the soldiers I trained,
but I still have to prepare them for battle. They have dangers too - drugs,
gangs, violence."

Lowe's seminars, which are targeted toward sales executives and business
professionals, focus on "success with integrity." He's scheduled 32 of them
for 1999, each with an average attendance of 12,000. This was his second
visit to Las Vegas. The previous seminar drew just 2,000 at the Riviera
hotel in December 1994.

"Our desire is to change people's lives, not just to inspire them," said
Lowe, who left a successful career as a computer salesman to found Peter
Lowe International Inc., a nonprofit organization based in Tampa, Fla.

The cost to attend the seminar was $50 to $60, depending on the seating, but
Lowe said the return on investment from the day of motivation and
inspiration is amazing.

"The average salesperson would say this one day pays for itself in two or
three days in commissions," he said. "Motivation in every single sales call
is important."

Lowe said sales people can con people once or twice, but for a written or
verbal contract to take place, there has to be an element of trust.

"People who've made it to the top and stay at the top, by and large, have
tremendous moral fiber and integrity in their lives," he said.

The seminar began with a speech by Elizabeth Dole, who announced Wednesday
she was forming an exploratory committee to determine whether she has the
support for a presidential bid.

Though the speech was the standard one she delivers at various Peter Lowe
seminars, she sounded more politician than motivator. Dole's brief address
touched on the size of government, the drug problem and American values.

"Americans have become increasingly disenchanted with their government,"
Dole said, calling federal government "too big and too bloated" and
complaining that lawmakers preferred "substitution of regulation for
responsibility."

Dole, a Republican like her husband, 1996 GOP presidential candidate and
longtime Sen. Bob Dole, said we "have a system of crime without punishment,"
arguing that court edicts "protect skulkers, molesters and abusers."

Dole asked people to take more personal responsibility in their lives.

"We'll never write enough rules. Individual character is what counts." She
said the country needs to return a "moral seriousness to the war on drugs.

"I don't get my passion from polls, I get my passion from a crusade to
eliminate drugs from America," she said.

Review-Journal writer Warren Bates contributed to this report.