Talk:W. Clement Stone

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• Stone was even nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his philanthropic endeavors in founding the W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation.

Being nominated for the Peace Prize is an honor, but it is not official and not necessarily prestigious. Any national legislator or about a third of the university professors in the world can make a nomination, and there have been as many as 140 some years. Nominators are requested to keep their nominations secret, so it's only those wishing publicity who make announcements. Altogether, I see no reason to keep it. No offense to the subject, this is a general Nobel Peace Prize "nominees" issue. -Willmcw 03:43, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

Con Man?

I came to this page on Wikipedia to read up on W. Clement Stone. The article seems to make him out to be a modern day messiah with his self-help books. But, I am very positive that this man made his fortune selling worthless insurance and brow beating naive people into doing the same with his think and grow rich type "philosophy".

I admit that I have searched the web for documentation on this and can only find incidental comments on it. It seems that he covered his tracks pretty well.

But I really expected to see some greater knowledge about him on wikipedia.

Rantedia (talk)

Plagiarism

The article seems like it was copied from the New York Times as was a book by Davies Guttmann: --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 15:38, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

The Power Of Positivity: Reaching Your Potential by Changing Your Outlook (2014) by Davies Guttmann: "He went from office to office, making cold calls (he called them gold calls) to sell casualty insurance, and he was soon making $100 a week. He devoured the Horatio Alger stories, in which poor boys make good. He dropped out of high ..." The Power Of Positivity: Reaching Your Potential by Changing Your Outlook (2014) by Davies Guttmann

Wikipedia: "At the age of 16, Stone went to Detroit to help his mother in the insurance agency she had opened there. He went from office to office, making cold calls (he called them gold calls) to sell casualty insurance, and he was soon making $100 a week. One of his favorite expressions when describing his cold calling and sales abilities was that he "...Mowed them down". He devoured the Horatio Alger stories, where poor boys overcome adversity to make good."

New York Times: "When he was 16, he went to Detroit to help his mother in the insurance agency she had opened there. He went from office to office, making cold calls (he called them gold calls) to sell casualty insurance, and he was soon making $100 a week. He devoured the Horatio Alger stories, in which poor boys make good."

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