Forbes Great Success Stories: Twelve Tales of Victory Wrested from Defeat
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Foreword (Steve Forbes).

Introduction.

1. Aaron Feuerstein: CEO and Owner of Malden Mills “Did you ever read the book of Job?”

2. Tom Monaghan: Founder of Domino’s Pizza “I feel that all these setbacks were tools for me to learn from.”

3. Larry Ellison: Founder and CEO of Oracle “When we hit the wall, we hit it very, very hard.”

4. Ruth Handler: Cofounder of Mattel Toys “I’ve been proving myself my whole life: I still am.”

5. Ron Popeil: Founder of Ronco “You might as well go for it.”

6. Emma Chappell: Founder of the United Bank of Philadelphia “I had this awful inclination to give up.”

7. Donald Trump: Chairman of the Trump Organization “Fight back: Always fight back until you win.”

8. Don King: Founder of Don King Productions “I totally eradicated the word failure from my vocabulary.”

9. Bruton Smith: Cofounder of the Charlotte Motor Speedway “Negativity? That’s not the way to make any money.”

10. Earl Stafford: Founder of Universal Systems & Technology (UNITECH), a Leader in Net-Based Training Systems “Bloody, but unbowed.”

11. Jim Stovall: Cocreator of the Narrative Television Network “I was more scared than I’d ever been in my life.”

12. Kevin Maxwell: Founder of Telemonde and Former CEO of Maxwell Communications “One could have—should have—abandoned ship.”

Notes.

Acknowledgments.

Index. 

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