Download e-book for iPad: Everything is Possible: Life and Business Lessons from a by S. Daniel Abraham

In Everything Is Possible, Dan Abraham, the mythical founding father of Slim-Fast, recounts the tale of his own and enterprise lifestyles, ranging from his early life and armed forces years and his buy of Thompson clinical for $5,000 while he was once in his early twenties, and culminating within the sale of Slim-Fast for $2.3 billion in 2000. on the center of Everything Is Possible are sixteen existence classes that Abraham has picked up in sixty years of a hard-working enterprise occupation. between them:

• There is not any such factor as a mistake (see pages 198–202)
• Why I continually insured that my providers made a revenue (see pages 208–9)
• The philosophy of constant development (see pages 202–5)
• If you've a thought and the evidence dispute it, drop your idea (pages 205–8)
• The attention that all of us have either stable and undesirable success in our lives, yet many people do not arrange for both (pages 216–9)
• I by no means observed a guy decide a struggle with a more robust guy (pages 191–5)

But this memoir, an excellent advisor for a person beginning and growing to be a company, is ready way over company. Abraham tells the heartwarming tale of growing to be up in a modest domestic in lengthy seashore, ny, and the teachings he realized from his mom, father, and one highschool instructor that experience guided him ever considering that. and there's extra, even more: a dialogue of his ideals in regards to the excitement of giving; what he has realized from Judaism approximately ethics and the Golden Rule; and what he realized from his reviews with the FDA in regards to the significance of compromise and concerning the necessity to struggle not easy in the event you think you are right.

At a time, whilst newspapers are packed with stories of commercial fraud and deceptions, and while such a lot of humans think that to have miraculous good fortune in company you need to be ruthless and cheating, this is often an account of a company lifestyles that has been lived honorably, passionately, and effectively, and with enjoyable. Everything Is Possible is a ebook to be savored and shared with old and young alike.