Great book about changing your mindset, taking action and making yourself tougher. For if A.L. In some states, they have even formed support groups.
His legacy will live on. You don’t play football on the field to play nice.” Williams dismisses his critics as poor losers.
Williams is running a “cult.”“Michael couldn’t cut it here,” says Art Williams.
"A crusade is, simply put, something that's bigger than you are. Michael, 52, joined A.L. Williams.
“Eighty-five percent of the people who sign on drop out.”Not every founder of a major American company motivates his sales staff with phrases like “kick some goddam butt” Right? I love it. Pat Robertson’s presidential bid.But no one has taken his disenchantment with the Williams organization more to heart than Robert Michael, who has launched a public information campaign against the company. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.”
Art Williams Quotes. Williams is a “multilevel marketing system” in which an individual’s earnings are based less on selling insurance policies than on finding other people to sell for you and taking a cut of their commissions. A fitness fanatic and teetotaler, he donated $1 million to Rev. "I don't believe people die from hard work. 1. “Most people can stay excited for two or three months. In return, Art dubbed him a ‘half-butt,’ demoted him and put him on probation. “For instance, he would take back raises on the air, and everyone would just sit and accept whatever he said.”But an investigation now under way in the state of Tennessee raises more questions. "It's not how much you make, it's how much you save.”12.
Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life."20. After 18 months he won an arbitration award of $45,451—not the millions he sought, observes A.L. Three states have investigated Williams for alleged deceptive trade practices and other irregularities, though two have ruled that there were no improprieties. “A.L. “We are the most scrutinized company that’s ever sold life insurance,” Williams says. He really helped open up and industry to new ideas and opportunities. "If you want to win, you've got to change.”24. Williams in 1982, after leaving his job as a captain in the Los Angeles Police Department. (Their four adult children have left home.) Right But Art Williams isn’t your standard CEO. All crusades artwork ships within 48 hours and includes a 30-day money-back guarantee. But though NICO recommends term insurance, it warns consumers away from Williams because, it claims, in their extraordinary zeal to rack up sales figures, the Williams agents often push their most expensive coverage and urge buyers to replace policies indiscriminately. But his earnings from selling insurance part-time for ITT Financial Services soon outstripped his school pay, and Williams began to develop some iconoclastic views on the industry. His competitors charge that the company is more interested in recruiting salesmen than customers. The 112-page book quickly became a bible for a growing number of disenchanted A.L. Williams is not the first to note that as investment vehicles, they’re no bargain; but his company is the first major firm to crusade aggressively against what he calls “trash value” insurance.“I’m just a country boy who grew up on a football field,” says Williams. Williams as “a cult which uses business rather than religion as its foundation.” Along with his wife, Gwen, and his son Bob Jr., 22—who also worked for Williams and was fired along with his father—Michael has opened an A.L.
The deal, he says, legitimizes his success: A respected Fortune 500 company would hardly buy a disreputable enterprise. (But George Aliano, President of the Los Angeles Police Protective League, says Michael is “highly intelligent, and if he thinks he sees something wrong, he says so.”)In 1986 Michael was fired because, he says, “I felt they wanted me to perform questionable acts, such as paying commissions to unlicensed salesmen, and I refused.” In July of that year, he sued the company on nine counts, including bad faith and conspiracy. "Crusaders commit to something bigger than their business."16. Williams legal counsel Stan Shapiro, “but he nonetheless won.” But the award was not for bad faith or conspiracy.There is, in fact, big money to be made in the Williams organization and quite a few people making it. Rather, he is one of the country’s most unusual success stories, a former high school football coach who started his own insurance business and quickly hit the big leagues. "You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. “One employee openly expressed his concern when Art kept changing the compensation system. The last 10 percent is a dogfight in the free enterprise system.”19.