"Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, then pretty soon you get it." 
                                                                                                – Wally "Famous" Amos

About Wally "Famous" Amos

The name Wally "Famous" Amos is synonymous with chocolate chip cookies. He was born in Florida in 1936 and moved to New York at age 12 to live with his aunt, who baked him cookies. After serving in the Air Force and getting his GED, he went to work at the William Morris Agency, first as a secretary and then as the agency's first black talent agent, wooing clients by sending them homemade cookies. He opened his first store in Los Angeles in 1975. He lives in Hawaii and serves on the Board of Directors of the Read It LOUD! Foundation, an organization that promotes reading aloud to children.