
Growth In Business
Leaders talk about the challenges they faced when their businesses started to boom.
The pressures of a growth curve was taking its toll on his family....
....it seemed like every business investment she made turned to gold.
Being a driven, results oriented individual is good when harnessed by an honorable purpose. Without an honorable purpose, the road can lead to disaster
Hard work and an innovative approach allowed this business to succeed in an aggressively competitive market.
Their business started in their home, now it's a multi-faceted enterprise that makes over $50 million in sales each year...
Over the next two decades, KCI grew to a global corporation with 2,500 employees and Jim has founded or co-founded nearly 50 other businesses and organizations.
By 1980 he became one of the first Certified Financial Planners (CFP), founded one of the top 25 financial planning firms in Atlanta and now manages $150 million for his clients.
Under Norm's leadership, Interstate grew into one of America’s leading battery marketing and distribution companies with over 200,000 retail outlets in the USA and Canada.
"When we opened the first Chick-fil-A restaurant in 1967, I never expected a chain of 1,000 restaurants."
At a mere twenty-one years of age, John was also younger than everyone else on staff...today, he employs 625 people and total circulation is 307,000, which adds up to over one million readers. He owns 54 newspapers in total.
Becoming a millionaire by age 35 and then retiring pretty much sums up the American dream for many young entrepreneurs.
“So within about 14 to 18 months after we took over the Boise McDonald’s, we had a total of four McDonald’s in three different states,” Jerry says.
John’s original goal was to build a business to the point where he had to spend only one day per week at work and the rest of his time in Christian ministry.