What's Luck Got to Do With It? : Twelve Entrepreneurs Reveal the Secrets Behind Their Success (Ernst & Young)

Jim McCann started with a flower shop on the side and ended up with 1-800-FLOWERS, the world's largest florist. Joanna Lau transformed a money-losing $7-million company into a profitable, diversified business with $56 million in annual revenues. Ted Waitt started Gateway 2000 on his family's cattle farm in Iowa and in less than ten years is running a billion-dollar company. What do they know that you don't know? What's Luck Got To Do With It? gives you an inside look at how renowned entrepreneursturned ideas into breakthrough successes. The twelve men and women profiled are pacesetters in industries as diverse as retailing, high tech, manufacturing, flowers, and golf clubs. Each is a compelling personality with an unusual success story. Each provides candid accounts in his or her own words of what it took —how, when, where —to overcome the odds. You'll read revealing stories about their ups and downs, turning points, key decisions, and wrong turns, as well as the...