Hello Dick
My history Prof friend returned today with a book from Charles Murray entitled In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State. “Look here Sam!” he exclaimed, “Murray describes the DeVos family perfectly! Listen: 'When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the DeVos family syndrome.' Murray actually said ‘Europe’ where I have inserted ‘DeVos’, but he hit the nail on the head, didn’t he Sam?”
“And did you see the post on FreeTheQuixtarIBO blog Wednesday? Listen to this from one of the biggest leaders in the business – Don Wilson:
“After extensive dialog and privately funding external research in regards to product pricing, it has became clear that the Quixtar and Amway business model has become less and less desirable to start. In my opinion the single most difficult objective for myself and others to over come is why the products are over priced. Approximately 13 years ago we were turning out over 60,000 people to monthly seminars. However that has dwindled to under 10,000 over the years.
Many very productive leaders within our business have had their business devastated by negativity; many of whom had to go return to the traditional work place in order to financially survive. We have accepted the task of helping people to become successful and feel responsible to do so. This has become increasing difficult because of the pricing gap and unmarketable price points. I have exhausted myself trying to aggressively promote change with Quixtar in order to bring the prices in line with the competitive marketplace. Regardless of their surveys, we in the field are dealing with this issue on a daily basis and have felt for many years the need to make an immediate change.
Quixtar’s recent decision to return to the Amway name, contrary to the Board’s recommendation and field’s experience, shows a complete deterioration of the working relationships which has taken place for over 40 years. Without being able to work collaboratively we have no choice but to discover new methods of bringing about change.”
“Which is what they have done Sam. Did you see that Bill Gates was recently quoted in the London Mirror? Gates said: 'Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.'
He might have been speaking of DeVos, Payne and Mohr but for the descriptor, ‘smart’. Just leave that adjective out and you’re left with a wonderfully accurate quote about the owners and managers of Amway Quixtar.”
When I protested, he said: “Smart? You have to be kidding me Sam! Your man Dick couldn’t even debate, let alone beat a tax-and-spend liberal like Jennifer Granholm in a state where the economy had tanked on her watch! Any thoughtful conservative should have been able to walk into the Governors office given the circumstances of the time. Too bad the Republicans didn’t have such a candidate!
And what’s even more pitiful is that he thinks he has a prayer in a state where since that last miserable performance, he’s made 20,000 or so people so angry they could spit!?
Bad news travels fast and each of those 20,000 IBOs has family and friends that you can be sure they’ll talk to before the election on the order of about 10 to 1. So, he may have left a bad taste in 200,000 mouths by what he’s done by letting Mike Mohr run rampant over the electorate. Why do you think he will get a different result in 2010? He’ll likely get an even worse beating, which is what he deserves!!”
Well, I had to agree about the Mike Mohr shenanigans.
And now we hear that the case in England has been settled. You may lose your entire English business because the government believes (and perhaps has proven) you were running an illegal business there. That’s what you get for allowing your business to be run by lawyers and accountants! While I have no desire to see you lose your English business, it’s fairly clear to everyone on this planet, except your inept General Counsel, that he’s lost the battle. Most likely, he lost the war as well when he lowered prices by an average of 68% in his desperate last-minute attempt to mollify the English government.
What the world now sees, is that if real pressure is applied, Quixtar capitulates and reluctantly does what everyone in the United States has asked them to do for years – make prices competitive to give their IBOs a chance to own a real business. But as we have seen proven in so many posts, Jim Payne and Mike Mohr were unwilling to reduce the margins enjoyed by your family.
That is until attorneys who have bigger sticks than theirs threatened them with wrapping up their business forthwith. How does it feel to be on the receiving end Mr. Mohr? Mr. Mohr? Are you there? Are you ill sir? All I can hear is some whimpering.
Dick, if you have any desire to put your hat in the ring in 2010, you have to stop Mohr now, before he ruins your reputation any further.
Just before he left, the Professor turned to me and said, “Sam, tell Dick ‘Qui male agit odit lucem’. Maybe that will get him to act.” I let him know that my Latin was a bit rusty and asked for the translation. Grinning like
the Cheshire Cat, he drolly delivered, “He who does evil despises the light”.
Dick, this is what my friends think of you! No doubt there are others out there who think similarly. You must act, because if you do not, it appears that you are avoiding the light.
Please show the world who you are!
My history Prof friend returned today with a book from Charles Murray entitled In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State. “Look here Sam!” he exclaimed, “Murray describes the DeVos family perfectly! Listen: 'When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the DeVos family syndrome.' Murray actually said ‘Europe’ where I have inserted ‘DeVos’, but he hit the nail on the head, didn’t he Sam?”“And did you see the post on FreeTheQuixtarIBO blog Wednesday? Listen to this from one of the biggest leaders in the business – Don Wilson:
“After extensive dialog and privately funding external research in regards to product pricing, it has became clear that the Quixtar and Amway business model has become less and less desirable to start. In my opinion the single most difficult objective for myself and others to over come is why the products are over priced. Approximately 13 years ago we were turning out over 60,000 people to monthly seminars. However that has dwindled to under 10,000 over the years.
Many very productive leaders within our business have had their business devastated by negativity; many of whom had to go return to the traditional work place in order to financially survive. We have accepted the task of helping people to become successful and feel responsible to do so. This has become increasing difficult because of the pricing gap and unmarketable price points. I have exhausted myself trying to aggressively promote change with Quixtar in order to bring the prices in line with the competitive marketplace. Regardless of their surveys, we in the field are dealing with this issue on a daily basis and have felt for many years the need to make an immediate change.
Quixtar’s recent decision to return to the Amway name, contrary to the Board’s recommendation and field’s experience, shows a complete deterioration of the working relationships which has taken place for over 40 years. Without being able to work collaboratively we have no choice but to discover new methods of bringing about change.”
“Which is what they have done Sam. Did you see that Bill Gates was recently quoted in the London Mirror? Gates said: 'Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.'He might have been speaking of DeVos, Payne and Mohr but for the descriptor, ‘smart’. Just leave that adjective out and you’re left with a wonderfully accurate quote about the owners and managers of Amway Quixtar.”
When I protested, he said: “Smart? You have to be kidding me Sam! Your man Dick couldn’t even debate, let alone beat a tax-and-spend liberal like Jennifer Granholm in a state where the economy had tanked on her watch! Any thoughtful conservative should have been able to walk into the Governors office given the circumstances of the time. Too bad the Republicans didn’t have such a candidate!
And what’s even more pitiful is that he thinks he has a prayer in a state where since that last miserable performance, he’s made 20,000 or so people so angry they could spit!?
Bad news travels fast and each of those 20,000 IBOs has family and friends that you can be sure they’ll talk to before the election on the order of about 10 to 1. So, he may have left a bad taste in 200,000 mouths by what he’s done by letting Mike Mohr run rampant over the electorate. Why do you think he will get a different result in 2010? He’ll likely get an even worse beating, which is what he deserves!!”
Well, I had to agree about the Mike Mohr shenanigans.
And now we hear that the case in England has been settled. You may lose your entire English business because the government believes (and perhaps has proven) you were running an illegal business there. That’s what you get for allowing your business to be run by lawyers and accountants! While I have no desire to see you lose your English business, it’s fairly clear to everyone on this planet, except your inept General Counsel, that he’s lost the battle. Most likely, he lost the war as well when he lowered prices by an average of 68% in his desperate last-minute attempt to mollify the English government.
What the world now sees, is that if real pressure is applied, Quixtar capitulates and reluctantly does what everyone in the United States has asked them to do for years – make prices competitive to give their IBOs a chance to own a real business. But as we have seen proven in so many posts, Jim Payne and Mike Mohr were unwilling to reduce the margins enjoyed by your family.
That is until attorneys who have bigger sticks than theirs threatened them with wrapping up their business forthwith. How does it feel to be on the receiving end Mr. Mohr? Mr. Mohr? Are you there? Are you ill sir? All I can hear is some whimpering.Dick, if you have any desire to put your hat in the ring in 2010, you have to stop Mohr now, before he ruins your reputation any further.
Just before he left, the Professor turned to me and said, “Sam, tell Dick ‘Qui male agit odit lucem’. Maybe that will get him to act.” I let him know that my Latin was a bit rusty and asked for the translation. Grinning like
the Cheshire Cat, he drolly delivered, “He who does evil despises the light”.Dick, this is what my friends think of you! No doubt there are others out there who think similarly. You must act, because if you do not, it appears that you are avoiding the light.
Please show the world who you are!
