Title

The way of the bootstrapper : nine action steps for achieving your dreams

Description

Reverend Floyd Flake explains nine steps that can help people achieve their dreams by relying on their own personal resources.

Identifier

796082

62515950

Creator

Flake, Floyd

Format

1st ed.

Contributor

Williams, Donna Marie

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1999

Program air date: July 4, 1999

Publisher

HarperSanFrancisco

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpapers and flysheet: List of 16 names from Kathy Sumler to Dr. Ben Carson, including Flo Jo, Colin Powell and Oprah Winfrey. Lived in house of Colonel George Young, Wilberforce, OH p 242. Karl Malone-adopted kids. Maxine Waters walks the walk etc. Bill Bennett, Bob Johnson--intro Floyd Flake- p 25. School choice--we have a school. Fannie Mae Foundation Board member. Investment clues in the church. Greatest wilderness experience--4 years between marriages. Who was Richard Allen-slave 482 students. Lee Iacocca--story of feud with Henry Ford. [Church crises--1985 Admin. assist--had to hire] trouble ahead. Conyers 1987--Lost first race. Dec. 1987--sued for sexual harassment, phones tapped, meeting at La Guardia, former employee dies in auto accident. Elaine-charged with 2 felonies. Wilberforce--no gadgets-wrote PhD thesis longhand. Worked at Reynolds Tob., Xerox 68-69, Lincoln U in PA, Boston U. Elaine got PhD also. Rev O.L. Dawson--spend Sundays traveling with him. Jewel Houston, Rev. Ulysses A. Hughley. 1st marriage, 1st drink--Kenton, Ohio. Married Elaine 1975 Memphis move to NY 1976. 1400 members- in 22 yrs 11,000. Wrote parts of book at 4 a.m. Drives all night--Fasting what does that do for you. P 200-The writing of books brings some closure. Legal fee 1.2 million--still owe $400,000 Civil suit. Tithing--we raise 6 million annually. Chase and 15 million loans to build cathedrals. We visited Mrs. Jewell Houston p 173. Treadmill every day, write my own sermons. Virgin till 21. No same sex marriage 1st house at 29 on the cape. Going into your closet. Coy Pugh-drugs to pastor p 62. "Walks the walk." Lamb checks and underlines sections on the Contents page. Notes/Underlinings: 6 terms Congressman, 4 children. Childhood lessons, teachers, education, Wilberforce, cafeteria job. No gadgets. Concept of bootstrapping. Career. Relationship with wife. MLK, thoughts on race as defense, aging.

Subject

"Flake, Floyd."

"Success."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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