Starting small and making it big
Subtitle: an entrepreneur's journey to billion-dollar philanthropist
By: by Bill Cummings
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Cummings Foundation
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Woburn, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780692064078
Subjects: Philanthropists; Biography; Businesspeople
Description: "Starting Small" details Cummings' story of how, with a practical sensibility and belief in himself and others, along with an eye for making his own luck, he worked his way from conventional working-class beginnings to founding a real estate company with a portfolio of more than 11 million square feet of debt-free space in his totally unleveraged style.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Early lessons of cost and value; title: Well grounded in Medford; title: A marvelous pathway; title: On the road with Vicks; title: Still on the road; title: Fruit punch and lemonade; title: The perfect partner; title: Cummings Properties emerges; title: Teaching and family years; title: Branching out, but still in Woburn; title: Jamie takes the helm; title: A whole different league; title: The darkest days; title: A hole in the world; title: Relocating the county seat; title: Cummings Foundation matures; title: Not a "billionaires club"; title: Real-life monopoly; title: Back to Africa; title: Building the future; title: Setting a better pace; title: New directions.