Forbes great success stories : twelve tales of victory wrested from defeat /
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| Author / Creator: | Farnham, Alan |
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| Imprint: | New York : Wiley, c2000. |
| Description: | xi, 271 p. : ports. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4353675 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1.. (CEO and Owner of Malden Mills) "Did you ever read the book of Job?"
- 2.. (Founder of Domino's Pizza) "I feel that all these setbacks were tools for me to learn from."
- 3.. (Founder and CEO of Oracle) "When we hit the wall, we hit it very, very hard."
- 4.. (Cofounder of Mattel Toys) "I've been proving myself my whole life; I still am."
- 5.. (Founder of Ronco) "You might as well go for it."
- 6.. (Founder of the United Bank of Philadelphia) "I had this awful inclination to give up."
- 7.. (Chairman of the Trump Organization) "Fight back. Always fight back until you win."
- 8.. (Founder of Don King Productions) "I totally eradicated the word failure from my vocabulary."
- 9.. (Cofounder of the Charlotte Motor Speedway) "Negativity? That's not the way to make any money."
- 10.. (Founder of Universal Systems and Technology (UNITECH), a Leader in Net-Based Training Systems) "Bloody, but unbowed."
- 11.. (Cocreator of the Narrative Television Network) "I was more scared than I'd ever been in my life."
- 12.. (Founder of Telemonde and Former CEO of Maxwell Communications) "One could have--should have--abandoned ship."
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index