TRUE WEALTH: The Vision and Genius of Innovator James LeVoy Sorenson - Softcover

Roderick, Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0996185003 ISBN 13: 9780996185004

Verlag: Probitas Press, 2016

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Jim Sorenson was born into poverty to teenage parents. As a small boy in California he shelled walnuts and sold things door-to-door to help put food on his family's table. Hope time by a teacher who branded him "mentally retarded." Yet he died a billionaire, having risen to rare heights as an entrepreneur. Dyslexia made reading extremely difficult, but also planted in his mind the seeds of awesome abilities. He invented many medical insruments that today are standard equipment in hospitals around the world, and pioneered entire industries while launching some forty companies.Jim was an American original - eccentric and complex, who preached teamwork but was utterly incapable of being anything but the leader; insistent on his rules but indifferent to everyone else's.After co-founding one of the nation's first biotechnology companies, he left and began Sorenson Research. Jim coveted results, not resumes. He recruited a machinist and a sewing-machine repairman. Starting almost from scratch, the three invented ingenious medical devices, selling the company fifteen years later for $100 million.Real estate was the other pillar of Jim's wealth. He was reputed to be his state's largest private landowner. His genius in acquiring land and holding, selling, or developing it offers a blue-print which others can profitably follow.Jim was a philosopher and idealist, pouring a fortune into a quest for peace. He brought antagonistic religions together in international summits, and gathered 100,000 human DNA samples from 90 percent of all countries, believing that if diverse peoples are shown they are related, they will learn to live peaceably.He was also a husband and father of eight whose family struggled to relate to him as he single-mindedly pursued his dreams.

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Lee Roderick is an award-winning journalist and author with broad national and international experience. During two decades in Washington, D.C. he was bureau chief for Scripps League Newspapers--30 papers in 15 states. He directed a staff of reporters, personally covered the White House and Congress, and wrote a national political column. Roderick traveled the globe covering major stories and was the only U.S. correspondent to succeed in interviewing Americans held hostage by Iran before their release in 1981. Roderick in 1988 was elected by his peers as president of the National Press Club--the leading public forum in the United States for national and world leaders. A native of Idaho, he returned to the Mountain West in 1990 as managing editor and then news director at KSL Television in Salt Lake City.

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• Verlag: Probitas Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0996185003
• ISBN 13: 9780996185004
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 456
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