Barefoot to Billionaire, Jon Huntsman
Barefoot to Billionaire, Jon Huntsman
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Barefoot to Billionaire
Reflections on a Life's Work and a Promise to Cure Cancer

Author: Jon Huntsman

Narrator: Don Hagen

Unabridged: 18 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 11/01/2014


Synopsis

Billionaire entrepreneur, distinguished public servant, and father of a former governor and presidential candidate, Jon M. Huntsman, Sr. has been very fortunate in life. The company he founded in 1970, the Huntsman Corporation, is now one of the largest petrochemical manufacturers in the world, employing more than 12,000 people and generating over $10 billion in revenue each year. Success in business, though, has always been a means to an end—never an end in itself.

In Barefoot to Billionaire, Huntsman revisits the key moments in his life that shaped his view of faith, family, service, and the responsibility that comes with wealth. He writes candidly about his brief tenure in the Nixon administration, which preceded the Watergate scandal but still left a deep impression on him about the abuse of power and the significance of personal respect and integrity. He also opens up about his faith and prominent membership in the Church Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

But most importantly, Huntsman reveals the rationale behind his commitment to give away his entire fortune before his death. In 1995, Huntsman and his wife Karen founded the Huntsman Cancer Institute and have since dedicated more than a billion dollars of their personal funds to the fight for a cure. They don’t plan to stop giving until the battle is won.

In this increasingly materialistic world, Barefoot to Billionaire is a refreshing reminder of the enduring power of traditional values.

Reviews

"How does one build great wealth? Through focus, flexibility, hard work; by following one's intuition with self-confidence. And then there's the matter of being willing to bet the farm. A lot of people have those first attributes, but few dare to risk what they have earned to that point. Most would-......more

Goodreads review by Shaun

This was an amazing and honest memoir of Jon M Huntsman Sr, who started Huntsman Chemical. He started with nothing and grew his small company into a mammoth corporation, a leader in the chemical industry. He described starting and growing the company, with next to no money and financed much of the e......more

Goodreads review by David

I will start with some oddness regarding the ISBN number. I can only imagine the information associated with the number must have been preliminary information. Call Me Old-Fashioned vs Barefoot to Billionaire. Second, the length of the book is about 60 pages longer. Again, I would guess preliminary......more