My Friend Adam Andrzejewski Has Died, a Life We All Can Learn From
This weekend at the age of 55, Adam Andrzejewski (pronounced: Angie-eff-ski) passed away.
Adam made his money, an eight figure fortune, in selling telephone book ads. This was during a time when that industry was already said to be a lost cause.
9,999 out of 10,000 people would come up with any excuse to not touch that dog of an industry. But Adam was different. He understood that if you just do the basics, day in and day out, and keep doing them, then 95% of the risk of failure is removed. It’s that simple.
You don’t need to be novel. You don’t need to be sexy. You don’t need to be newsworthy. You just keep doing the basics day in and day out and 95% of the risk of failure is removed.
I suspect there was no dog of an industry in the eyes of Adam.
As further proof of that, by the time that many members of the middle class with a few dollars to protect had given up on Illinois, Adam was busy starting a non-profit called For the Good of Illinois.
He teamed up with local activists and taught them how to access the checkbooks of their local
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