Marketing Your Dreams: Business and Life Lessons from Bill Veeck Baseball's Marketing Genius

by Pat Williams

Bill Veeck marketed, promoted, and sold baseball like no one before him and like no one since. Influenced and inspired by the classic sports book Veeck: As in Wreck, veteran author and motivational speaker Pat Williams has penned his 19th book, Marketing Your Dreams: Business and Life Lessons from Bill Veeck, Baseball's Marketing Genius. Williams, senior vice president of the NBA's Orlando Magic, insists that Marketing Your Dreams isn't a Bill Veeck biography; instead, it's a book about success, a book about one of the most relentless and fascinating personalities in the history of organized sports. It's a book about extracting Veeck's traits and concentrating them into their purest form so that the reader can pull the same kind of inspiration from the master that Williams did.

Genres: Business

318 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2000

About the author

Patrick Livingston Murphy Williams was an American sports executive, who served as senior vice president of the Orlando Magic. Williams began his career as a minor league baseball player, and later joined the front office of his team. In the late 1960s he moved into basketball, with his biggest achievements being the 1983 title of the Philadelphia 76'ers and being a partner in the creation of the Orlando Magic.

Reviews

[Jim Serger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Baseball is but only one occupation-but if you really look into the heart of a leader you see the true testimony of their vision-that is what Bill Veeck can teach us and we the student can see what transpired when we follow our heart, our dreams. Bill is merely one man, but ind individual touching the hearts of people--businesses win when people comfy first and the dollar second--that is the the tangible item I am walking away with after reading this book. Once again Pat Williams has brought to life a visionary that has been gone, bug his message is alive and well. I throughly enjoyed this book, funny, serious, thought provoking and a beacon of leadership values.

[Meagan Swingle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Marketing Your Dreams
"Business and Life Lessons from Bill Veeck, Baseball's Marketing Genius"
I found this book so inspiring. I flagged so many pages and highlighted quotes and thoughts throughout. "I'm for the dreamer. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done," is one of my favorite quotes in the book. If you're in a field that you are passionate about already, or you wish you were, this is a great book to read for motivation and inspiration.

[Paul Body · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ok

[Eliza Cappadona · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read for school, very interesting and engaging