Building a Business: The Jim Walter Story
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Building a Business reveals the free enterprise system at its best--a success story for our time, tracing the rise of a tiny, entrepreneurial home-building company from its origins on the back roads of Florida in the late 1940s through its takeover by the power elite on Wall Street in the 1980s and '90s. As a young man of twenty-three, Jim Walter borrowed $500 to buy an unfinished house, selling it within three days at a profit. The...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1561647942
ISBN13:9781561647941
Release Date:January 2015
Publisher:Pineapple Press
Length:340 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.3" x 9.4"
Customer Reviews
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Nice reading for a motivation seeker
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Building a business is a nice book, not a must to read, just to see what a simple men can do when they believe in their success.The bad side of the story is that it is not the Jim Walker story, because you do not even learn about his marriage, if or if not his marriage was good or suffered from his work, even not if there are children and so on.Anyway, a nice book that leaves you with some more confidence in the still possible American Dream.Dr. Rudolf C. KingCEO, princeandprince.com
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