Dust jacket notes: This is the true story of Glenn W. Turner, a harelip sharecropper--a ninth grade drop-out -- who borrowed $5,000 to open his own business in August, 1967 (at age 33) and by August, 1969, had turned that $5,000 into One Hundred Million Dollars! But this is more than a story of financial success. Pulitzer Prize Winner John Frasca has written an in-depth study of Turner, the child of poverty who seemed destined to follow a plow all of his life on the tobacco farm that earned his father less than $500 a year. For Glenn Turner, every day of childhood held torment. Harelip and poverty seemed insurmountable odds. But he was determined to pull himslef out of the poverty, even if he could not escape his physical handicap. He chose the most difficult route for a harelip -- salesmanship, where the spoken word is the only tool. In these pages, John Frasca has recorded the successes and failures of Glenn Turner: Success selling sewing machines. Failure (three times) trying to start his own sewing machine company. Success in the furniture business. Failure in the furniture business. And Success with the company he formed in 1967--and with twenty-seven corporations he now owns. Intertwined with the story of failure, struggle and success, are the stories of the people who influenced Glenn Turner's life -- the Opportunity School Director who was instrumental in getting an operation on his harelip (and teaching him the value of love); his wife, who bore his first son, then slowly died of Hodgkins disease; his mother and father, brothers and sister; the second wife who believed in him and made him believe in himself; the college professor who became his first "disciple"; the people to whom he is a "saint" -- and those to whom he is still a con man.
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Interesting!,
By DREAM MAKER (Bakersfield, Ca) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Con Man or Saint? (Hardcover)
John Frasca was an investigative reporter, originally hired to investigate (RE: Expose) Glenn Turner.After investigating Turner and his organization, he was so impressed that he wrote this book praising Turner and his company and exposing the negative and inaccurate propaganda circulating about Glenn Turner at that time.Interested in the facts about Glenn Turner? Read this book.
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Con Man or Saint?,
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This review is from: Con Man or Saint? (Hardcover)
I came across this book alon with Dare to Be Great at a used bookstore and found both books rather interesting.It appears as though Frasca was hired to Expose Glenn Turner's companies Dare to Be Great and Koscot Interplanetary as an illegal pyramid scheme and expose Turner as a charlatan.Instead, Frasca after going inside Turners organization is so impressed that he writes this book turning Glenn W. Turner into a hero and exposing him as a charitable, caring man who was also an astute businessman and a promoter of PMA (Positive Mental Attitude)Turner would become "American of the Year" beating Art Linkletter among others and his companies broke all sales records in the 70's for MLM/Network Marketing.Even if you don't believe it, all of us can learn a thing or two about giving something back as Glenn W. Turner did; about having a burning desire to succeed that would not quit and about the power of Network Marketing-Glenn W. Turner style.Very inspiring and motivational. Great story about a great man-Glenn W. Turner.
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Glenn Turner was a CON MAN!,
By donna deltoni (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Con Man or Saint? (Hardcover)
By his own admission, Glenn Turner was a con man, that is he was a confidence man and taught people how to believe in themselves.Glenn Turner was/is the greatest motivator/personal development trainer in the world.Interesting is that of 700 lawsuits filed against him, Turner successfully defeated 699 of them.I also recommend Turner, Turner, Turner: The King of Network Marketing AND The Unstoppable American.
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