A Daily Dose of the American Dream

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Description

A Daily Dose of the American Dream is a collection of 366 inspirational stories of ordinary people who achieved extraordinary success through ingenuity and hard work—people such as Mary Kay, Eddie Bauer, Tom Landry, Jay Leno, Bill Gates, Billy Graham, Sam Walton, Oprah Winfrey and more. Each five-minute reading includes a quote, a story of success, and a challenge that will encourage you in your business or personal life. It is as if a personal coach were saying, "You can do it!"

Sample Text

Parker Pens
Our pens will write in any language.
by George S. Parker

George Parker kept his eyes open for new opportunities. Of course, he had to make a living in the meantime, so he taught telegraphy. One day in 1892, George finally found an idea worth pursuing. He had come up with a concept for a fountain pen design that would eliminate a bothersome leakage problem that had plagued pens for over fifty years. George knew that the market for his pen would be huge. Virtually every person in the entire world who wrote anything was a potential customer. As he began to have success distributing his pens in the United States, George encouraged his associates to expand into new markets with the message, “Our pens will write in any language!” To that end, George began exporting his pens in 1903.

George was a meticulous manufacturer. Even though he had a fine design, he insisted on spending plenty of time and money to make sure that the pen would write in all conditions. It had to write equally well when used left-handed, slanted forward, slanted backward, etc. George insisted on innovation but was never too eager to bring a product to market until he was sure it was the best. When ballpoint pens were introduced, George continued to research for another nine years before introducing the “T-Ball Jotter.” Always keeping Parker pens at the top of the price lists, George acquired Eversharp in 1957 to address the lower price market. Today, Parker is one of the best-known American brands around the world.

CONSIDER THIS: Someone will be at the top of the heap, and it will probably be the company that pays the most attention to quality.

About the Author(s)

Alan Elliott has written fifteen books and dozens of articles on such wide-ranging topics as education, investing, medical research, statistics, computers and business. He is a faculty member of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and lives in Cedar Hill, Texas. He measures his own success in terms of his faith, family, and friends and he considers himself to be one of the richest persons in the world.

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