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Summary: God used events in LeTourneau's life to shape RG 4 His glory
Review: Excellent gift for engineers, construction workers, dreamers, young men, historians, preachers, etc. The autobiographical book is a life-time adventure of RG LeTourneau (RG) being molded by God and RG working with him. The neat aspects of this book are: 1) It shares a slice of American life from before World War I to after World War 2.2) It shows the development of earthmoving equipment and company roots such as CASE and CATERPILAR.3) It gives an example of how to be a inventor/business entrepeneur. In a down to earth kind of way, the book shows how RG became successful in both the eyes of God and man. RG as a stubborn, rebellious teenager doesn't look like he is going to go anywhere. God get's ahold of him, but his life still has its struggles. The book is a truthful account which shares both the good and the bad. It is an encouraging story well worth reading.
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Summary: My nomanie for man of the Century
Review: I grew up in the shadow of this great man. I worked in the R.G. LeTourneau archives one summer as a teenager. Living in Longview, TX, I had the chance to be around his family and friends after his death in 1969. I read this book after my parents gave me a copy and learned much about his way of life and his inspiration. This is a man committed to God, his family, his country and to getting a job done. He had a sense of humility and pride that is not seen in this world today. His humility in that he never put himself first. His pride in that he always wanted the biggest, fastest and best. The only man I know of that drove a VW beatle to the airport to ride in his Lear Jet. Much of what he built and what he stands for is not politically correct today. He was an industrialist making big heavy equipment. He invented machines that tore down juggles, cut down mountains, drilled for oil in the gulf. But the fact is that the America we know today would not be possible without him. We would still be using mules and the backs of thousands of workers to build roads if he never lived. His Christain stance is legendary. His giving was beyond what most people think is possible. He proves that it is possible. I have since met two other men who claim to match R.G.'s giving level. Both very prosperous. The line that I took from the book that I often quote when I am addressing people on success is, "America is the most prosperous nation because it is the most productive nation. If it ever ceases to be the most productive, it will cease to be the most prosperous." If you are looking for other books that mention R.G LeTourneau, then I have found him in two success books that were written in the sixties. J. Paul Getty's "How to Rich" and there is a facinating first hand story of him in Napoleon Hill's "Master Key to Riches"
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Summary: A Must Read !!!!!
Review: I have an MBA with a distinction, was a consultant with a Big 6 firm, and even lectured in business at a university. However, it was the results seen in this book on R.G. LeTourneau's life combined with my experiences of working with entrepreneurs who trusted and focussed on God and the truly astound effects it had on their businesses and lives, that has made me realise that as humans we are really nothing. Even during the Great Depression, LeTourneau's business survived!! This book is a mind blower - it shows that 1 + God = a majority. Also try Stanley Tam's "God Owns my Business"
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Summary: A Must Read !!!!!
Review: I have an MBA with a distinction, was a consultant with a Big 6 firm, and even lectured in business at a university. However, it was the results seen in this book on R.G. LeTourneau's life combined with my experiences of working with entrepreneurs who trusted and focussed on God and the truly astound effects it had on their businesses and lives, that has made me realise that as humans we are really nothing. Even during the Great Depression, LeTourneau's business survived!! This book is a mind blower - it shows that 1 + God = a majority. Also try Stanley Tam's "God Owns my Business"
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Summary: If God is First all other will be added
Review: I truely enjoyed this book. I just entered into LeTourneau University and my first assignment was to read this book. I have been so inspired by this book. R.G. Letourneau put God first and all other was added unto him. He was truely the christian I strive to be. In everything he did he placed God at the center and whatever happen to him whether good or bad he continued to believe it was God's will. Thank God for people like R.G. Letourneau. I truely have enjoyed his testimony.
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Summary: Boring and self-congratulatory
Review: I was asked to read this book as a class assignment, and I have found it to be exceedingly dull. We start out with standard "I walked to school through 3 feet of snow" drivel and progress (very slowly, I might add) to laborious descriptions of various manufacturing processes. Occasionally we are thrown some references to God as a business partner. I suppose the point is to embrace innovation, have a good work ethic and have faith in God ... but this book is excruciating to read. R.G. LeTourneau was an ingenious inventor and a good man, but his autobiography is just plain bad.
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Summary: Mover makes a difference
Review: If it weren't for my brother giving me a copy of R.G. LeTourneau's book Mover of Men and Mountains while I was in high school I would have never ended up where I did for college at LeTourneau University, the school he founded in Longview, TX. I found the book very interesting (I've always been interested in technical information and didn't consider myself much into autobiographies but "Mover" really held my attention the whole time I was reading it. It also includes several sections of pictures which really help you understand the scale of what Mr. LeTourneau did with God's help. I very strongly recoommend this book and I think you'll really enjoy it!
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Summary: required for those serious about God in their business life
Review: Left school at 14, worked in a foundry, ship yard, electric company...,and finally earthmoving. He kept seeing better ways to do things, but no one believed him, so he went and built them himself. He was close to bankruptcy several times but as he said "how do you get good judgement,by bad experiences. What gives you bad experiences, bad judgement." Through "experiences" he proved the reality of God in the business setting and went on to become a leader in the field of building massive earth moving equipment. Next to the Bible this book has had the most influence on my life and business. You will find it hard to put it down.
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Summary: Very Interesting, Inspiring, and Readable Book
Review: This book, and its subject, were of particular interest to me as my own father worked for Mr. LeTourneau in the late 1950s and early '60s. My dad had so many wonderful things to say about what a pleasure it was to work for Mr. LeTourneau, I had to read this book for myself to find out what it was that made him so well-liked by his employees, which is quite a feat in our day and time. I was impressed with Mr. LeTourneau's honesty and humility about his own shortcomings, about the mistakes he made (and how he learned from them what NOT to do the next time), his ingenuity, his imagination and vision, and his willingness to live on very little in order to accomplish his goals. I was even more impressed with the way he kept his priorities in order, attended church regularly and took part in its leadership, included his wife as a valued partner in his life, and also his children as they grew older. I would recommend this book to anyone; even my reluctant 13-year-old reader (a son) thoroughly enjoyed this book. There were times that I got bogged down in some of Mr. LeTourneau's descriptions of the machines he invented, but my son enjoyed it all. One of the things that really struck me about Mr. LeTourneau's life was that he was born just before the turn of the twentieth century, yet he was always on the cutting edge of technology -- a real innovator. Kudos to his memory!
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Summary: Very Interesting, Inspiring, and Readable Book
Review: This book, and its subject, were of particular interest to me as my own father worked for Mr. LeTourneau in the late 1950s and early '60s. My dad had so many wonderful things to say about what a pleasure it was to work for Mr. LeTourneau, I had to read this book for myself to find out what it was that made him so well-liked by his employees, which is quite a feat in our day and time. I was impressed with Mr. LeTourneau's honesty and humility about his own shortcomings, about the mistakes he made (and how he learned from them what NOT to do the next time), his ingenuity, his imagination and vision, and his willingness to live on very little in order to accomplish his goals. I was even more impressed with the way he kept his priorities in order, attended church regularly and took part in its leadership, included his wife as a valued partner in his life, and also his children as they grew older. I would recommend this book to anyone; even my reluctant 13-year-old reader (a son) thoroughly enjoyed this book. There were times that I got bogged down in some of Mr. LeTourneau's descriptions of the machines he invented, but my son enjoyed it all. One of the things that really struck me about Mr. LeTourneau's life was that he was born just before the turn of the twentieth century, yet he was always on the cutting edge of technology -- a real innovator. Kudos to his memory!
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