{"id":508,"date":"2009-05-19T14:28:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T19:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/?p=508"},"modified":"2009-05-20T07:56:38","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T12:56:38","slug":"akrons-acorn-jim-oelschlager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/19\/akrons-acorn-jim-oelschlager\/","title":{"rendered":"Akron\u2019s Acorn\u2014Jim Oelschlager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s always nice to get a word of encouragement, and today I was reminded that I might not offer words of encouragement or gratitude to those I love and admire often enough. I have <strong>Jim Oelschlager<\/strong>, the richest man in Akron, Ohio, to thank for this reminder. In a letter thanking me for writing <em>The Richest Man in Town,<\/em> he wrote, \u201cWow! What a spectacular book! My prediction is that it will be on the best-seller list soon.\u201d Every writer loves to hear those words, and as they say, from Jim\u2019s lips to God\u2019s ears. He went on to say the book should be a textbook for graduate schools of business. That was a big wow for me. Oelschlager, who is unquestionably one of the most inspirational men I have ever interviewed, brought so much power to my book because of his extraordinary personal story. He is the chairman and chief investment officer of <strong>Oak Associates<\/strong>, an investment-management and mutual fund company far from the canyons of Wall Street\u2014perhaps that distance is one of the things that has made him one of the greatest investors of all time. Or perhaps it\u2019s just that he truly understands people and the human condition on such a deep personal level: Oelschlager was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis early in his career. He told me, \u201cI would like to say to those people with multiple sclerosis: Don\u2019t let MS be an excuse.\u201d And despite the challenges the disease presents, Oelschlager certainly hasn\u2019t. Not surprisingly, he also said, \u201cThere is no one I would want to change places with. I want to be me.\u201d That\u2019s what makes his words of encouragement particularly powerful. Thanks, Jim, for that reminder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter thanking me for writing <em>The Richest Man in Town<\/em>, <strong>Jim Oelschlager<\/strong>, the richest man in Akron, Ohio, wrote, \u201cWow! What a spectacular book! My prediction is that it will be on the best seller-list soon.\u201d Every writer loves to hear those words, and as they say, from Jim\u2019s lips to God\u2019s ears. He went on to say the book should be a textbook for graduate schools of business. That was a big wow for me. Oelschlager, who is unquestionably one of the most inspirational men I have ever interviewed, brought so much power to my book because of his extraordinary personal story. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8,153],"tags":[170,171],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}