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Author: Kazim Big gold star, 5000 posts Old School Fool Add to my Favorite Fools Ignore this person (you won't see their posts anymore) Number: of 1384  
Subject: Re: The Death of Amway Date: 3/12/1999 2:07 AM
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Oh goody, an Amway enthusiast spouting canned arguments on TMF. Just what we need.

<<Amway has always worked for those who worked it. Microsoft has produce 3300 millionares,
Amway 2200, and Drycleaning over 1100.(resource I forget, look it up).>>

Let's see: Microsoft has 22,000 employees world-wide, so that makes 3300/22,000 = 15% of them becoming millionaires.

By their own statements, Amway has over 3 million distributors world-wide, and that makes 2200/3,000,000 = 0.073%.

By my estimation, this means that the millionaire opportunities are 204 times better for an MS employee than a distributor.

By some accounts (notably "The Millionaire Next Door" by Thomas J. Stanley), about 3% of the general population are millionaires. This means your overall chances of striking it rich are only 41 times better if you stay out of Amway than if you join. This is not quite as good as signing on at Microsoft, but still an improvement.

<<check out WWW.countdown9199.com. if you realy want the facts contact me>>

One shameless plug deserves another:
http://www.willynet.com/rglasser/amway
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