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🗓️ 17 March 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm here and I have the privilege of introducing to you the most fantastic individual that you will probably ever meet in your lives. |
0:09.0 | This man tells you and is 11 example of what man cannot accomplish when he believes in himself. |
0:15.0 | You know some people that believe in themselves can take a lump of stone and carve a work of art so beautiful that it transforms people's lives. |
0:24.0 | This man here Glenn Turner has carved his work of art from a lump of stone, a stone of disbelief, doubt and complacency. |
0:32.0 | His work of art is Coscott. |
0:34.0 | I want you to meet the man who created this company from his dream. |
0:39.0 | The sharecropper owns his way to harvest the world, the chairman of the board of Coscott Interplanetary and Corporate, Mr. Glenn W. Turner. |
0:49.0 | Glenn W. Turner was born with a deck stacked against him. |
0:52.0 | He grew up in a tobacco farm in South Carolina and the thrills of the Great Depression. |
0:56.0 | And he had a disability, a cleft palate, that in no way, especially during that time period, would serve to make his life any easier. |
1:04.0 | Neither were dropping out of school in eighth grade, but Glenn Turner did it anyway. |
1:09.0 | He worked on the family farm until he was old enough to venture out to find work of his own. |
1:14.0 | In 1955, Glenn landed a job selling sewing machines for the monarch sewing machine company. |
1:19.0 | The job was even Glenn Turner admits that he was not very good at, but Glenn Turner never gave up. |
1:24.0 | And before long, he was closing deals that would have escaped him in the earlier years of his career. |
1:30.0 | Eventually, Turner made the jump from selling sewing machines to selling cosmetics, but the product never really mattered. |
1:36.0 | Glenn Turner had evolved into such an excellent salesman that he could sell you the shirt off your back if he wanted to, and they knew it. |
1:43.0 | Glenn knew that perseverance pays off, he knew that practice makes perfect, and he knew that a positive attitude goes a long way. |
1:50.0 | Glenn Turner had figured out the keys to a successful life, but more importantly, Glenn Turner had figured out a way to get very, very rich. |
1:59.0 | You get yourself in school and get your attitude right, and you don't never give up! |
2:05.0 | Because when you give up, you are dead. |
2:10.0 | Don't ever give anybody the satisfaction of beating you into the ground. |
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