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Thursday, November 05, 2015
Why should White guys have all the fun-Reginald Lewis
This is the real "Rocky" of business. The
life of Reginald Lewis. In 1992 Forbes Magazine listed him among the
richest 400 Americans. The story of a black man that came from nothing to
become a power player in the financial industry, among his acquisitions Beatriz
Food, a global company. A man's determination and drive to brake through the
barriers of a white dominated money world. They tried to exclude him from
participating in deals. He did not work. This is predicable. What is surprising
are the many that jumped in to help and support him in becoming extremely successful,
among them Michael Milken the famous financier and Phyllis Schless the
investment banker. They should do a movie on the life of Reginald Lewis, by the
way he looked like Denzel Washington. The movie would be a mixture of Rocky and
a formula one race. Read this book it is great. Every person needing
inspiration or feeling like an underdog ought to read it. Forget about
athletes being role models for kids, this is the real role model.
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