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Thoughts on Pat Williams and Jim Denney's book, How To Be Like Rich DeVos.

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The importance of biographies to your business.

Hi, I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I mentioned months and months and months ago that I was in the middle of a book that I was really enjoying. And I wasn't going to reveal what it was until I was completely finished to kind of get myself to finish the book because it takes me forever to finish books.

It was the case in this one also, although it didn't take as long as many of the other books that I still have unfinished. But this is one by Richard DeVos how to beat well it's not by wish to boss This is by Pat Williams, also with Jim Denney.

This is an old worn out copy that I got somewhere how to be like rich box, how to be like rich divorce, co founder of Amway and owner of Orlando Magic. And then another sub headline says, succeeding with integrity and business in life.

Good Book, ironically not exactly a biography, but has a whole lot of biographical elements. So the whole book is about one guy. But it's not necessarily taking his life from the beginning to end and going through the story of his life like a lot of biographies, like most biographies do.

This is actually one where this Pat Williams was working for the Orlando Magic. And that's how he got to know Rich DeVos and was basically started out talking about how he met him, and how he ended up into finding out more and more and more about him through time.

This whole book is made up of a million different interviews with different people, him basically asking them what they liked about him, how they met him, what were unique situations that they found themselves in with him. And he then breaks it down. This is one of the things that Pat Williams has done in a number of books, he has a lot he has a whole series of how to be like books.

So he has a one that's how to be like Walt Disney and so forth. He breaks it down into basically steps of how you can be like rich Voss in terms of in terms of the virtues that the guy has. So this was a guy. him along with Jay Van Andel, were the ones that started Amway, which is a major, major company, you can go and look up all the all the background on that company, a long, long history.

I think they started in what was a 1958 or 59, something like that. And he just passed away a couple years back. Very interesting person. very intrigued. What's really funny is toward the end of the book, Pat Williams says that what's amazing is all the people we talked to all the interviews, he couldn't get anyone to say anything negative about him.

He couldn't get anyone to give a bad story about this guy, that everyone always had good stuff. And even if people had a situation that was awkward or weird around them, it always turned around to his benefit.

In the long run, he always he always came out looking better than they originally thought in the beginning. And it's I mean, for one thing, if if it is true, it's great, great that the guy had such a wonderful life. If any part of it isn't true, the guy had amazing PR, because he got everyone around him to think he was a he was a wonderful guy one way or the other.

And just looking at everything, it's got some points on the back here, you know, everything from risk tanking, to mentoring to putting people first salesmans...