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S2 Ep29: The Downline (Herbalife)

Swindled

Swindled

Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4.610.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A multi-level marketing company becomes a global success despite accusations of dangerous products and exploitation. 

Prelude: Glenn W. Turner’s lifetime of pyramid schemes.

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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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