Profile of Success: Phil Town

Can Getting Rich As An Investor Really Be Simple?

Phil Town is one of those great oddball stories, including a true-life version of the “stranger reveals amazing secret” story (‘Blackie’ story) that is classically used in advertising, and familiar to readers of this newsletter who are students of direct marketing.

Phil was a river-rafting guide, who saved a wealthy investor from the rapids in 1980. The rescued investor, ‘Wolf’, took Phil under his wing and taught him how to de-mystify stock market investing to such a degree that the “plan” has only four steps, and anybody with basic math skills, common sense, and a ‘feel’ for what is a fundamentally good business can use.

Entrepreneurs and small business owners will like Phil and his approach. Phil Town started out by turning just $1,000.00 into One Million Dollars in 5 years. Now he says you can do it faster and bigger by doing research online.

Not to discourage you from reading the book, hopefully to encourage you to read Phil’s book, here’s The Plan:

Step 1: Find a wonderful business/company
Step 2: Figure out what it is really worth (thus predicting future value)
Step 3: Buy it at 50% off (find under-valued but not highly speculative stocks)
Step 4: Repeat Steps 1, 2 and 3 until very rich

The book is: Rule#1: The Simple Plan For Getting Rich – In Only 15 Minutes A Week.

Profile of Success: Paul Orfalea

The name may not instantly ring bells, but the business Paul co-founded and helped build to juggernaut status will: Kinkos.

Kinkos is, essentially, a chain of over 1,200 McDonalds-like copy/office services stores. His new book is a lot more than a collection of business strategies; it is one of the all-time great true-life stories of achievement against odds.

Paul flunked two grades in school, was expelled from four of eight schools, graduated near the bottom of his high school class, and was diagnosed with both dyslexia and hyperactivity, thus the book title: COPY THIS – Lessons From A Hyperactive Dyslexic Who Turned A Bright Idea Into One Of America’s Best Companies. Stories like Paul’s should give inspiration and motivation to all entrepreneurs.

From the book:
“My disorders contributed enormously to the building of Kinko’s and my life. They propelled me to think differently.”

Those fortunate to be free of personal handicaps have to think: I have no excuse! Those with a handicap, have to think: there’s proof handicaps are to be overcome.

— Chris

P.S. – If you fly United/USAir this month, check out their magazine for a more indepth feature on Paul’s story, too.

Profile of Success: Donny Deutsch

You’ve probably seen Donny Deutsch on his talk show on CNBC, ‘The Big Idea’.

With a brash, blunt, daring style, he built his fledgling ad agency into a $2.7-billion juggernaut, known for “hip” TV ads for companies like Old Navy and Monster.com. While you may or may not be a fan of some of the advertising his agency creates, you have to be an admirer of his self-promotion, and of his new book Often Wrong, Never In Doubt. The ad business is a very tough, very competitive business, and building a huge and successful agency from scratch is no easy task. What may be most instructive about Deutsch is his attitude.

From the book:
“The key to success is not purely who’s the smartest, who’s the best, but also who can say with conviction ‘I deserve it…..why not me?’ You can’t just say it. You’ve got to own it. In order to pitch $10-million accounts, you’ve got to say ‘We should be pitching’. Who’s going to get that $10-million account? Why not me?”

Why not YOU?

— Chris

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