The more persistent you are the luckier you get
J. Stanley Fredrick
J. Stanley Fredrick is a self-made American businessman who started selling pots and pans door to door when he was 16 years old. With his brother John Fredrick, he later co-founded Colony House, a private label cookware company and Cameo/Colesce Couture, a distributor of intimate apparel.
Over the years, Fredrick excelled as a salesman and as a partner, CEO, investor, and board member for both private and publicly traded companies. He says his secret to success was being lucky enough to find the direct selling industry and has had three distinct careers within it: 20 years in the cookware business, 25 years in the bra/lingerie party plan business, and more than 20 years in nutrition/network marketing.
Fredrick, who has been actively involved with the Direct Selling Association for over 40 years, has been inducted into the organization’s highest honor, the “Hall of Fame,” and into the Direct Selling Education Foundation’s “Circle of Honor.”
Fredrick currently serves as Chairman of the Board for Mannatech. He and his wife, Judy, have five children, twelve grandchildren, and live in Flower Mound, Texas.
Testimonials
“I consider Stan a mentor! Stan is a gracious leader loaded with principles and values that will continue to inspire generations. His love for entrepreneurship started while selling cookware to earn supplemental income as a college student. Today, Stan’s leadership oversees enterprises that he has built. For this amazing man to take the time to share his story, for the benefit of people all over the world, is another testimony to his legacy. I see this book as his greatest gift of all! It is a story that needed to be told.”
-John Fleming
“Stan is one of the best men you have ever had in your life in so many regards in no time at all. He said, yeah, you are so right. He is just, he's so fair. He's so innovative. He's such a hard worker. He doesn't mind putting his hands in on anything else he asked anybody else to do.”
– Ray Robbins
“Stan has decades of making a difference”
– Stuart Johnson
“All of us want to achieve uncommon and unthought-of success. Stan has just written the tool to help you get there.”
–Tony Jeary