Customer Reviews:
 The best tool any salesman could have! February 2, 1999
This book was given to me by the President of a Lumber Company I once worked for. It is what I've patterned my sales technics after... Always going the extra mile. In short... Service above all. I recommend it not only to all sales people, but to anybody who's job it is to service the public. Oh, by the way, the Lumber Company President?... He's my best customer!
 This pamphlet is of historical interest only January 20, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In this offensive little post-World War I parable, first published in 1921, an honorable one-armed war veteran of great capability is "put to the test" by a querulous and incompetent lumber company sales management team. Hired on by the crotchety Owner over the objections of his team, the war veteran is eventually given a trivial and unnecessary sham personal task by this Grand Old Man of the company. He handles it with the loyal determination you might expect of a good soldier in wartime, unaware that the task he has been given is the moral equivalent of a "join the club" fraternity hazing ceremony.Of course, the former dispatcher of German snipers succeeds (although only because he is able at the last minute to pawn a diamond-studded ring he kept as a souvenir of war, having removed it from the severed finger of one of the dead snipers), and is rewarded with the plum job, a demanding and highly paid posting to the Far East, presumably so highly paid because he will be selling off America's old growth forest treasure to the high-bidding Asians. The ideals set forth in The Go-Getter set aside all the progress and insights in business management in the last 50 years. Everyone's a critic, I know, but I'm nonetheless sure that both of my grandfathers, successful and modest businessmen of that era, would have been quite saddened to read of the unreasonable and inhuman behaviour depicted in this repulsive little short story.
I used this book in Organizational Managment class. April 11, 1998
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am an adjunct instructor in a business college of a university in the midwest. My students were given this book as an option for a required or an extra credit review. Of the 84 students, 80% purchased, read, and reviewed it. Most found it very exciting and a book they will keep to use over and over again. I have owned the book for years and reread it many times. It is great to know that 20 year-olds can gain from reading such a timeless story.
Great selection for anyone who needs a "jump start" in life. March 26, 1998
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I give this book a '10' because it is short, in a story format, and has surpassed the test of time. Many "motivational" books are long; too long for someone who is busy and needs information to the point. I read this book in an hour and really felt like I was involved with the main character.
DIFFERENT!!! February 4, 1998
When I first picked up The Go-Getter by Peter Kyne, I was really sure of what to expect. I was looking for the typical book to tell you steps on how to become a "go-getter"... I am pleased to say that I was wrong. This book showed me that a person can not give up no matter what obstacles are in front of them. One must always strive to do their best. I know now that I am going to go after the blue vase and do whatever it takes to get it from the store!
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