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Franchisor's Fall

 

I'm proud to be associated with Amway Corp., which made no promises and painted no flowery pictures to recruit me. It was made very clear that my success or failure was to be totally dependent upon one thing -- my effort. I took a chance on me, not on the company behind me; it was well established. Lynn Karp gambled on "the Cadillac of the industry" and ended up with an Edsel.