Corporate-finance

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

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?

First of all the book and Amway does change a lot of peoples life, if we only refer to monetary value and we are refering to something that does not lasts, but if we are refering to friendship, lifestyle, time with family, spritual value and principles. Than being in Amway with the system is the best that one could offer.

As such to those who oppose Amway, I really would like them to think, although those people may be a millionaire (one person does say this), but anyway if you did follow the system fully then there should not be any issues as all in obtaining the time and money. Remember as the review say, there is no scarsity there is only abundance, and the person from Texas is refering as if the world resource is scarse.

Furthermore, if this person never been in Amway fully and never make a decision to build the business then, the person does not have any CREDIBILITY AT ALL to talk about Amway although all he could come out with lengthty statistics on this(by the way is he a millionare or a statistic professor :<).

Really the book does explain if we want to have the correct INFORMATION please see the CORRECT people. In this sense if we want to know about AMWAY, meet Rich De Vos, or any of the Crown Ambassador. Like wise you don't ask your friend about the condition of your tooth (you ask a dentist) or the condition of your brain (you ask a neurologist), so really I personnaly don't understand some STUPID people who keeps on asking the wrong people.

Lastly, the book talks about how there people start from a humble begining and went on to be somebody. For every succesful men there is an improvement and change, and these is what human is learning and improving. Start by being humble and learn the system, there is no room for ARROGANT people in this world. We have enough of those and we don't need them.

Please DO GET THE INFORMATION FROM THE CORRECT PEOPLE. Just remember this simple example : It is strange if a ask a stanger 100miles away from your house about your son's heart condition. IT DOES.

Who do you ask then ???????

This book captures a truly unique American product, and a family that was integral to the creation of the industry. As I write this review, Booker Noe's death was just recently announced. The personalities of the larger than life characters like Booker are wonderfully captured within the narrative. Even if you're not a fan of bourbon (philistine!), you'll come away with a great appreciation for the definitive American spirit (both the drink and the people).

What a great book! I loved it and couldn't put it down. I feel like I was right there with Pacult as he traveled around with Booker Noe. I am not a bourbon drinker, but this book made me wish I had a little bit to sip as I was reading it. Alas I finished reading the book before I could purchase some bourbon.

This book kept me enthralled for an entire weekend. A great look at a family that created an entire industry with a distinctly American product, Bourbon.

As the story of a facinating family, the author gently takes you through the many generations of the Beams without getting you lost in a morass of detail. You remain excited waiting for the next turn in their fortunes, and you get a wonderful look at the many personalities involved in building the Bourbon industry over time in the process.

When I think about the book from a business standpoint, Paul Pacult succeeded in conveying the patience and the passion these people have for their product, and how they manage to maintain that passion, literally over generations. In a world of managing quarter to quarter, the Beams are a refreshing change.

A very-well written, facinating look at a piece of Americana. I heartily recommend it.