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My Adventurous Life
About this book
Entrepreneur, adventurer, philanthropist ... Australian icon Dick Smith shares his extraordinary life story for the first time.
'Part Bear Grylls, part Bill Gates, but 100% Aussie larrikin. Dick is a great innovator, philanthropist and adventurer, who in my eyes can do no wrong.' - Paul Hogan
'Businessman, adventurer, philanthropist . . . Dick Smith is a true Australian legend.' - Greg Mortimer OAM
'I have been charmed by good fortune to be born in Australia in the 1940s. I have lived through a time of great prosperity and every day I am reminded of my good luck.'
Dick Smith is a remarkable and proud Australian. He has been part of our national consciousness for over fifty years as an innovative and astute businessman, a ground-breaking adventurer, a generous philanthropist and a provocateur for the causes he feels deeply about. Yet, despite his great successes and achievements, Dick has remained down to earth and close to his roots.
So how did the young boy who was one of the most academically hopeless in class become the national living treasure he is today? And what was it within that kid with a speech impediment that allowed him to create three successful businesses, and take on some of the world's greatest and most dangerous aviation challenges?
In My Adventurous Life, Dick shares his inspiring story and the lessons he's learned about staying true to yourself. He has welcomed the freedoms that wealth brings, but has found the simple life more fulfilling. His responsibility is to the world and the people we share it with.
'Part Bear Grylls, part Bill Gates, but 100% Aussie larrikin. Dick is a great innovator, philanthropist and adventurer, who in my eyes can do no wrong.' - Paul Hogan
'Businessman, adventurer, philanthropist . . . Dick Smith is a true Australian legend.' - Greg Mortimer OAM
'I have been charmed by good fortune to be born in Australia in the 1940s. I have lived through a time of great prosperity and every day I am reminded of my good luck.'
Dick Smith is a remarkable and proud Australian. He has been part of our national consciousness for over fifty years as an innovative and astute businessman, a ground-breaking adventurer, a generous philanthropist and a provocateur for the causes he feels deeply about. Yet, despite his great successes and achievements, Dick has remained down to earth and close to his roots.
So how did the young boy who was one of the most academically hopeless in class become the national living treasure he is today? And what was it within that kid with a speech impediment that allowed him to create three successful businesses, and take on some of the world's greatest and most dangerous aviation challenges?
In My Adventurous Life, Dick shares his inspiring story and the lessons he's learned about staying true to yourself. He has welcomed the freedoms that wealth brings, but has found the simple life more fulfilling. His responsibility is to the world and the people we share it with.
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Table of contents
- COVER PAGE
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- MAP
- PRAISE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- CONTENTS
- NOTE
- DEDICATION
- PROLOGUE
- CHAPTER 1 WHATEVER WILL HAPPEN TO DICK?
- CHAPTER 2 THE FEET OF YOUNG MEN
- CHAPTER 3 THE POWER OF LOVE
- CHAPTER 4 PLANNING MY FIRST EXPEDITION
- CHAPTER 5 SOME VALUABLE LIFE LESSONS
- CHAPTER 6 DICK SMITH, āSALES ENGINEERā
- CHAPTER 7 PICKING UP THE BASICS OF BUSINESS
- CHAPTER 8 DICK SMITH, CAR RADIO NUT
- CHAPTER 9 A HEADY MIX OF CATALOGUES AND FREE PUBLICITY
- CHAPTER 10 CHAMPAGNE ON ICE
- CHAPTER 11 CONQUERING BALLāS PYRAMID AT LAST
- CHAPTER 12 CHANGE IS IN THE AIR
- CHAPTER 13 TAKING TO THE SKIES
- CHAPTER 14 SOLO AROUND THE WORLD IN A HELICOPTER
- CHAPTER 15 DICK SMITHāS JOURNAL OF ADVENTURE AND DISCOVERY
- CHAPTER 16 SOLO TO THE TOP OF THE WORLD
- CHAPTER 17 NEVER COMPLAIN ABOUT YOUR TAX
- CHAPTER 18 AVIATION SAFETY REFORM
- CHAPTER 19 THIRD TIME LUCKY
- CHAPTER 20 OFF THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
- CHAPTER 21 NEVER-ENDING ADVENTURE
- CHAPTER 22 MARCHING TO A DIFFERENT DRUM
- EPILOGUE
- PICTURE SECTION
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INDEX
