Not just a business, but an opportunity for personal success and achievement, Amway has spread the old-fashioned American dream across the globe-from South America to the Pacific Rim. This definitive history of Amway delves deep into the heart and soul of the organization. It is an inspirational, motivational chronicle of the company as a whole-its ideology, goals, beliefs, ethics, and sense of values-filled with uplifting stories of people around the world whose lives have been totally transformed by the Amway philosophy.
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Wilbur Cross is also the author of Choices With Clout, an inspiring guide to decision making based on the principles of the co-founders of Amway
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17 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
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If it is to be - It is upto Me,
This review is from: Amway: The True Story of the Company That Transformed the Lives of Millions (Paperback)
Amway, as a company is much criticized. Every second person's view you take would be negative, not only that they would even to go an extent of warning you not to burn your fingers in the hot soup they have already experienced.And yes, by the way, these people know everything about the company, let it be the MLM, or the networking, or even those chain and pyramid schemes. You ask them, they know everything! But there is nothing wrong in this, because 90% of the world has got the same view for whatever the gentlemen next door is doing. It is not good and the other guy is a fool. What I found uplifting in this book is that it has not only given the historical background of this grand company but also talked about the entrepreneurs who revolutionized the networking industry - Rich DeVos and Jay Van Andel. The book moves from the history of these two successful entrepreneurs to setting up of the baby company with a dynamic new concept, the concept that time known as Illegal Pyramid Scheme, now An Industry in Itself. Then the story moves on to the lives of some of the successful achievers and the problems faced during the early days. It also captures the motto and missions of the company along with the code of ethics they follow in and around the organization. I am a distributor with no bank balance, and I have not attained any successful level in this organization, but belief alone is what is dragging me and helping me believe in the organization. People are negative by nature by default. All I would say is that if you can't motivate a person - For God sake don't de-motivate either. This book gives you the inside story of a company starting from scratch and going to billions of dollars year after year. The credentials of the company can make a make a book all together. A company that has generated maximum number of wealthy people around the world, Not by paying them salary and incentives but by teaching them a model and system, that can help them diversify their income potential. A model, which can teach an individual how to generate world's most powerful income plan - "Residual / Passive / Royalty Income". All I am asking here to an individual is to believe in the system, plan, ethics, morale, cash flow, diversification, planning, self-development, teaching, learning, respecting, edification, dreams, motto, goals, dedications, depth in thought, a broader look over the picture, an open mind, an intellectual approach, etc etc etc. because this is all this company and this book in particular will teach. If you do not want to join the company, Don't join - but make sure you do it for the right reasons. Take an intellectual approach - if someone talks about this ask him to show you the business plan, scrutinize him and his business models by reading some books, ask for some tapes from successful people that can give you an idea the kind of people who are associated with the business you are scrutinizing, attend some meetings and functions. Then after an educated approach if you are not interested then say the truth, "I have checked the business, it is good and the company is great. The kind of income potential it has is mammoth and the kind of people associated are acceptable by you, but for some personal reasons / or may be because of your lack of dreaming / or may be because you are not prepared to go for it right now / or may be because you do not want to get associated with this kind of business, no matter what income potential or growth prospects it contains - you right now - Are Not Interested In Joining The Team". When you say that you are saying the truth from your heart, and that is what an intellectual No means. But unfortunately 90% of us have got the other view - "Oh, Amway - I know about it. This thing doesn't work. The guy next door did it and failed, the products are costly. I hate reading or don't give me books I know what they talk about. Tapes, oh no, I know what that guy will say." Well, if you want to encircle yourself with such kind of thoughts then go ahead. But before going a step ahead remember the following qualities of successful people: Every successful person is a Leader And these are the general qualities of successful people, apply them in every aspect of your life, and make a wise decision. Wisdom is knowledge, Applied. This Book is the wisest decision you can make to find out anything and everything about Amway. Good Luck and All The Best for whatever business model you choose for your success. Just be honest and wise in your dealings, and respect others for the efforts they have taken, a Billion Dollar Company doesn't take birth in a day - it requires hard work and dedication. Respect Rich DeVos and Jay Van Andel for their Wisdom and support. All The Best and Happy Reading!
14 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Amway: The True Story of the Company That Transformed the Lives of Millions (Paperback)
How long do you go on "just getting started" while relying on another job to pay your bills before you realize you're wasting your money, only making the diamonds richer?
23 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
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WAKE UP!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Amway: The True Story of the Company That Transformed the Lives of Millions (Paperback)
Smell the coffee! Your upline tells you to think and to "get information from the right sources", "don't listen to negative thinkers", however Brian Tracey even admits that you need to evaluate the negative AND the positive to make an informed decision. Deride me if you will but I spent 4 years listening to tapes, reading books, showing the plan then got fed up trying to "share the dream" with people while the true information on the Quixtar/Amway business became more and more readily available to anyone smart enough to use a search engine and the web. Do I believe everything I see on the net? No. But I am intelligent enough to see patterns in what other people reported and what I was seeing with my experience. Yes, the tools did help me be a better person and I appreciate the growth I got from them, but it was an expensive lesson. I did not want to make the majority of my income on tool sales in a business that claimed it would come from product movement. Current IBO's - don't waste your time diseeminating my post and picking apart my comments with your pre-programmed rhetoric and quips about whiners, losers and such. We all need to make decisions and live with the consequences of those actions. I have and hope that anyone evaluating this "opportunity" gets an objective perspective in order to make an informed decision. The "truth" is out there. Make sure you at least attempt to find it. Best wishes to all
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