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As Marilyn Tam makes eminently clear, what are you waiting for?
When you have an opportunity to learn from a book
written by a successful, minority businesswoman and humanitarian who had every
excuse not to make it in corporate America, take it!
Marilyn’s credentials speak for themselves, but most
important, her guidelines and stories will help you get started now on living
the life that you were meant to live, with work you truly enjoy.
—Mark S. Albion, Ph.D. author of the NYT Best
Seller, Making a Life, Making a Living®. Former Harvard Business School
Professor, Fortune 500 consultant and successful entrepreneur
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Marilyn Tam is more than a successful businesswoman and entrepreneur. She has a
mission to make this world a better place. Her message in this fabulous,
accessible book is that each one of us has a mission and a gift to share. By
starting from where we are, using what we already have, we can manifest our
dreams. This book is a course in practical magic. Use it and let yourself fly.
—Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., author of numerous New
York Times best sellers including Inner Peace for Busy People. Co-founder and
former director of the Mind Body clinics at the Harvard teaching hospitals,
Beth Israel/Deaconess Medical Center.
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Well Done! Marilyn Tam’s book is a fascinating read and a priceless treasure
trove of information, stories and tools to help you attain your dreams.
To achieve true success, you need to know what you really want, you have to
live your life mission. Marilyn Tam’s book, How to Use What You’ve Got to Get
What you Want”, helps you identify your life purpose and then in a simple and
engaging way, gives you the tools to achieving it. Her four powerful principles
will guide you in accomplishing worldly success and inner peace. Keep this book
handy, you’ll find it to be a great resource and a friend.
—Jack Canfield, 2002 Best selling author &
CEO
Chicken Soup for the Soul Enterprises
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A very important contribution to the art of living a successful, happy,
fulfilled life especially in the complicated, highly competitive world of
business. I left marking slips on the sides of the pages to return to them.
—Robert Muller, 2002 Nobel Peace Prize nominee
Assistant Secretary General of The United Nations for 30 years
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A unique book that brings spirituality into materialism and shows us how the
two can compliment each other. A must read for all potential and present
corporate executives.
I found it equally useful in the non-profit arena; the
insights and advice apply there also.
I highly recommend this book!
—Arun Gandhi, renowned international peace
leader, author, teacher and speaker
Founder, Executive Director and grandson of M.K. Gandhi Institute for
Nonviolence
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Marilyn Tam is a true visionary. Her most profound accomplishments lie beyond
the normal hallmarks of being a successful businesswoman, and can be found in
her deep wisdom, remarkable clarity and generosity of spirit. “How To Use What
You’ve Got to Get What You Want” is more than just a powerful guide for
dreamers and doers--it is an infusion of inspiration and encouragement that
will uplift any reader and make him or her grateful to have read this wonderful
book.
—Barbara De Angelis Ph.D., NY Times best selling
Author, TV personality, Motivational Speaker, Human Relations Expert
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What do you get when you cross an altruistic nature with top-level
responsibilities at Reebok, Nike, Aveda and Britannia? This book! Marilyn Tam
brings elegant theories down to earth with devastatingly effective checklists
for success. Some business books inspire and others guide, but few backup their
visions with itemized formulas for specific accomplishments.
With insight, grace and wisdom, Marilyn Tam's book proves
that enlightenment can have its commercial rewards.
—Jim Mullen, founder and former CEO of Mullen
Advertising, former Vice Chairman of The Lowe Group, a division of The
Interpublic Group of Companies, a $7.2 Billion global marketing communications
and marketing services company.
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This book rings true! At Ben & Jerry's we’re able to combine three things
--- innovative, high quality products, economic success, and social change.
Marilyn Tam’s book fulfills on all three criteria. It’s a fabulous tool for
anyone who is interested in finding and fulfilling their life purpose.
Marilyn’s remarkable business experience, common sense
and humor distinguish her principles and blueprint from others on how to
flourish in the world and in your personal life. I heartily recommend it.
—Ben Cohen, Co-founder, Ben & Jerry’s
Homemade, Inc.
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I so enjoyed reading How to Use What You've Got to Get
What You Want. The magic of this book begins in the first few pages and unfolds
Marilyn's four guiding principles. At last a guide, written by someone who has
actually been there, making it easy for anyone who wants to take the next
leaps!”
—Patty DeDominic, Founder & CEO, The PDQ
Careers Group of Companies, Board member and Vice Chair of the foundation
SCORE, President Emeritus, National Association of Women Business Owners, Past
Chairman, LA Area Chamber of Commerce
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Marilyn Tam is an extraordinary woman who possesses a unique sense of business
leadership. The intuition and practical experience that Marilyn shares through
How to Use What You've Got to Get What You Want is a testament to her innate
ability to motivate and inspire others. This book is an excellent tool for
anyone seeking to make a difference in their personal or professional lives. It
provides easy to use strategies and practical guidelines which empowers the
reader to look within and utilize their own potential. I highly recommend this
book to anyone on their quest for fulfillment though their mission.
—Pamela Chaloult
Co-Executive Director, Social Venture Network
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Marilyn Tam has revealed a precise and practical method of manifesting our
heart's desire. With a refined clarity she has identified principles and
practices that work in the world to fulfill our life's purpose. A brilliant
work which I highly recommend.
—Barbara Marx Hubbard, visionary futurist,
author, social architect and spiritual pioneer
President, Foundation for Conscious Evolution
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This is a book for the “can do” folks to fulfill all our dreams and potential!
With commonsensical wisdom and no-nonsense clarity, Marilyn has given us a
brilliant and simple guidebook to explore the human journey. Excellently done.
Bravo!
—Chungliang Al Huang, founder-president Living
Tao Foundation, author of Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain
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We certainly need books and speakers who do encourage people to believe in
themselves, and the potential of their lives. This is more than that, for it
instructs people how to accomplish their goals. This is extremely well done,
and effective. It is like a road map, how to get from here to there.
[Marilyn Tam] fills the book with interesting and
perceptive observations, and reminds all of us of the basic approach we must
make to the challenges we face. I am a true believer in what [she] says, and
[she] says it very well.
I love the way [she] shares [her] personal experience.
This is the most important part of inspiring others to believe in the possible.
—David Winter Ph.D., Director of the American
Council on Education’s Commission on Women in Higher Education, Director of the
Association of Presidents of Independent Colleges and Universities Chancellor,
Westmont College, California
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Take your passion and make it happen with this powerful book filled with the
essential tools for your rapid success in any business or situation. I loved
your work, every page filled with wisdom!
—Barbara Gaughen, author
President, Gaughen Global Promotions
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I was captivated by your book. There are so many useful ideas, I keep thinking
of all the people I know who would benefit from and enjoy your book. It is
extremely well written. I loved it; I wouldn’t say this to a fellow writer if I
didn’t honestly mean it. Congratulations, well done.
—Charles McPhee, “The Dream Doctor,” author and
radio personality
Resident dream expert on AOL.com, Oxygen and national radio personality on Cox
radio
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A must read! Brilliant, inspiring insight for leaders! Companies have paid
millions for this kind of coaching and now it's available to everyone. These
ideas will ripple throughout business for the next decade. Be the first to
bring them into your company.
—Kate Ludeman, Ph.D. President, Worth Ethic
Corporation, and author of The Corporate Mystic (co-author with Gay Hendricks)
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It is often said that the real truths are simple; it's the execution that is
difficult. In this book the execution is simple because the truths are so
authentic. The stories, laced with insight, weave an empowering personal
leadership formula that is applicable to any situation and every person. You
will want this book to know the magnitude of what you have and with the very
act of reading it you will become a creative leader in your life and in your
work.
—Eddie Erlandson M.D., co-author of Radical
Change, Radical Results (with Kate Ludeman), former Chief of Staff St. Joseph
Mercy Hospital, and founder of “Life Lessons”
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I loved this book! A most unusual “how to” combining
what is with what might be with what should be. A primer for advanced thinking.
A primer for positive action. How to maximize personal capital as a force for
success – for the self, for the company, for the community, for the world. I
enthusiastically recommend it.
—Joan Helpern, founder, CEO and Creative Director
emeritus of Joan & David
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