Simply Success How to Start, Build and Grow a Multimillion Dollar Business the Old-Fashioned Way

by Miller, Jack

• ISBN13: 9780470224526
• ISBN10: 0470224525
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-25
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The former chairman of Quill Corporation imparts key lessons of entrepreneurship, including getting started, vision, financing, forecasting, customer service, and building a successful corporate culture. He draws on his own experience of founding Quill with his brothers and building it into one of the largest business supply companies in the world - eventually selling it to Staples for $630 million.

Author Biography

Jack Miller is the founder and former president and CEO of the Quill Corporation, which he sold to Staples for almost $700 million. He currently deals in real estate and other investments at Millbrook Properties and The Benida Group.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
A Bit of History	p. 5
What It Takes to Be an Entrepreneur	p. 27
Getting Started	p. 33
Financing	p. 39
The Miracle of Hard Work	p. 47
The Magic of a Vision	p. 53
Focus: Putting on the Blinders	p. 61
Concentrate on Your Customer	p. 71
There is a Better Way	p. 79
Plotting Your Course with Strategic Planning	p. 85
Implementation: Making It Happen	p. 91
Forecasting and Budgeting	p. 99
Using Your Financial Statements to Get Where You Want to Go	p. 105
You Can, Too, Argue with Success!	p. 111
Building a Great Corporate Culture	p. 117
Shaping a Winning Organization	p. 133
Who Controls Your Life?	p. 147
Easing the Burden	p. 153
Doing More by Doing Less	p. 159
Your Growth as a Leader	p. 165
Someone Changed the Rules. Why Wasn't It Me?	p. 173
About the Lifelong Learning Process	p. 179
The Art of Survival	p. 185
How to Do Almost Everything Wrong	p. 191
About Advisors and Boards	p. 203
A Family Business Can Be Great-or ...	p. 209
The Glory of the Free Enterprise System	p. 215
Index	p. 219
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