Posted on 08/23/2008 7:38:17 AM PDT by PghBaldy
Harold Simmons wasn't thrilled about leaving his home in Golden, Texas, after high school in the later 1940s. The shy, unassuming kid cherished the consistency of a modest small-town life. But with practically one step out of Golden, he traversed a path paved in gold.
With an unlikely start as a banker examiner and bank trainee, Simmons developed a knack for locating opportunity, eventually buying a bank and then one drugstore after another, until an initial $33,000 investment mushroomed into a $1.3 billion trust fund.
Golden Boy: The Harold Simmons Story is a gripping story of high corporate finance and corporate acquisition. Acclaimed for his popular fiction novels, including Pandora's Clock, Medusa's Child, and Skyhook, John J. Nance found Harold Simmons to be a compelling nonfiction subject and became fascinated with the unchanged personality of the billionaire, despite his meteoric success.
(Excerpt) Read more at johnjnance.com ...
Well it’s about time I read about a billionaire who is NOT a fan of Marxism/Socialism/Communism!!!
Thank you, Mr. Harold Simmons!!!
Actually been praying for a billionaire or two or three to step up and help defeat the destroyers of this country....so thank you, God!
I personally don't care to be steered to it or anything else in particular when I open Free Republic.
Thank you Mr. Simmons
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“I personally don’t care to be steered to it or
anything else in particular when I open Free Republic.”
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Just curious...
There are obviously many ways to “open Free Republic”.
I guess my way differs from yours.
I have never seen the ad nor even a link to it.
At what url are you being directed to this ad?
Thanks
Thank you, Mr Harold Simmons!
There are around 1,000 billionares in this country and most started out at the bottom.
The billionaires of this country realize what the tax system could do to growth and the capitalist system. If there is no benefit like profit why take risk?
there are some people who carry themselves in a way that makes you say, “please, o, please stop by the gym sometime and put on a pair of gloves....”
Great website! I love that sentence on this ad - while we still allow you to vote.....vote Obama!
Isn’t that the truth.
Ultimately, behind it all, Ayers, Obama, Hitlery, they all want a one party system where you “vote” only for their guy - if you vote at all.
To think they have half this country’s voters in their pockets - supposedly.
The Democratic Mafia Marxist Party is about NOTHING but RAW, Coercive, abusive, thug P O W E R - and ayers is their poster boy.
By the time the fools who support them wake up, there won’t be a choice in voting, and there won’t be a VOICE left to stop them.......
But while there is a choice and a voice, we will fight them.
Thanks again, Mr. Simmons.
Thanks to FR for putting this ad at the top of the news/discussion forum.
Shining a spotlight of truth on a cockroach like Ayers is a good thing. He is the most despicable of all of Barack’s associates and was instrumental in his ascent.
WORDS-DEEDS-WORDS, the guy has a 2nd chance then turns around and mouths more words on 9-11 and has a book cover reiterating his disdain...how many innocent people will die in this country with his ilk detonating more powerful bombs with more fanatical followers?
Strange; but I still don’t see it there.
It must be how we have our local customizations
and sidebar configurations set up.
Thanks anyway.
I don't like having my fare chosen for me.
Years ago his daughters sued him for misusing the money in their trust funds, trust funds he set up and funded. His sin?? Contributing "their money" to Republican candidates! I don't remember seeing how that suit turned out.
Oh my - well there you go - riches “spoil” a lot of people...evidently including his daughter.
It just seems that the left’s billionaires have outnumbered those who favor freedom...and economic prosperity....so am very glad Mr. Harold Simmons is still around to fight for freedom in this way.
I can gurantee that the totalitarian party are scheming right now as to how to bring down the you tube freedom revolution...along with, of course, silencing talk radio and shutting down places like Free Republic.
they won’t stop til we are all silenced...but maybe I won’t live long enough to see that happen - thanks to heroes like Mr. Simmons.
It has always puzzled me that the ultra rich and the Jewish people are dems, as a rule.
But how can that be? We all know that the Republicans are the eeeeeevil rich! Or didn’t you get the propaganda of the last 30 years?
It has always puzzled me that the ultra rich and the Jewish people are dems, as a rule.
IMHO liberal politics is a form of conspicuous consumption which separates the rich from the mere middle class.
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