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Summary: Should be required reading!
Review: DeVos inspires us to take charge of our lives, to live it to the fullest. Outlines principals and values we all should be living by. If we all did, this world would be a better place to live and work.
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Summary: Should be required reading!
Review: DeVos inspires us to take charge of our lives, to live it to the fullest. Outlines principals and values we all should be living by. If we all did, this world would be a better place to live and work.
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Summary: Great book! Devos is a great American role model .
Review: Every American should read this book. Devos talks about the issues that are hurting our country and what we need to do to change. His background and business history preceed him as a man who practices what he preaches.
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Summary: Great book! Devos is a great American role model .
Review: I have to admit that I thought this book was going to be about Amway. I was very surprised to find out how little this book even mentions the corporation. I instead found that the book provides refreshing and innovative insights on the true never-fail principals this country was founded on. I would say that this book is a must read for any person who considers themself in anyway patriotic. It is one of the best books I have ever read.
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Summary: A book about real freedom and true principals
Review: I have to admit that I thought this book was going to be about Amway. I was very surprised to find out how little this book even mentions the corporation. I instead found that the book provides refreshing and innovative insights on the true never-fail principals this country was founded on. I would say that this book is a must read for any person who considers themself in anyway patriotic. It is one of the best books I have ever read.
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Summary: Essential Reading. This one should be a school textbook!
Review: I was pleased that the book was NOT another GREAT AMWAY oracle. Practical applications outlining true leadership qualities we all should aspire towards. Coming from the "Business Community" a real breath of fresh air!
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Summary: A "Must Read" for ALL Americans...Great High School Hx Text
Review: I was pleased that the book was NOT another GREAT AMWAY oracle. Practical applications outlining true leadership qualities we all should aspire towards. Coming from the "Business Community" a real breath of fresh air!
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Summary: A Company of Paradoxes
Review: No one denies Dick DeVos is a great seller of soap or would question his right to do so. The book presents us with a paradox, however. Dick would have us believe Amway salesmen aren't like other salesmen: they don't bear false witness, they are consistent in word and deed, treat others according to the golden rule, are humble, courageous, disciplined, and stand for freedom. You have to decide if he is deceiving you or not. If he is, then Amway's approach is deceptive and sales practices based on this deceptive doctrine are deceptive. If he is not, then he is violating the constitutional rights of the sales force. They have the right of freedom of speech, an implied right of privacy, freedom of religion or lack of it; in short, the right to make their own choices about how to live and feel and think without Amway telling them how they better do it. Moreover, even in Dick's own religion, he is paradoxical. The path of spirituality has never been through riches.
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Summary: Essential Reading. This one should be a school textbook!
Review: There are many great books in our local libraries and on booksites around the world. No doubt this is one of them. This is a book not only worth buying, reading, re-reading and applying. It is a book worth sharing! During turbulent times such as these in our schools: crime, drugs, alchol abuse, teenage pregnancies, and now even MURDERs are becoming commonplace. We must rediscover those values which have made our country great. Adults and youth alike are scrambling to find themselves in counter cultures and in personal liberties. Ask the Chinese, where personal liberties get them. Personal freedoms are important but as Mr. DeVos shares with us, freedom for all is much more critical. If we are to be a country of individualists, than we will be subject to lie in the bed we have made for ourselves. More accurately, we will be subject to sleeping with those FEW individuals whom are driving their own agendas. My hope is that we (together) strive to uphold the vision our forefathers provided: to make our bed of universal freedoms -- a comfortable bed indeed.
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Summary: DeVos is DeLightful
Review: This book is not about Amway. It's about how we can learn to shape our personal and professional lives on principles that are so simple, yet so strong. Put DeVos in the same league as a Stephen R. Covey. If you want to be a better person, mother, father, businessperson ... this can serve as your compass. This man didn't wake up one day and was given the keys to the business. He didn't start out in an Armani and wingtips ... He started by taking care of the grounds...driving forklifts and trucks ... he was given a taste of the whole business before he took over. He takes characteristics like honesty and integrity and breaks them down so simply and reminds you that this is how this country was built. There are the jokes about Amway out there, but who is having the last laugh? At $7 billion annually, Amway is helping a lot of ordinary folks making a good living by taking the principles in this book and making them work once again.
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