from B egin-n
to M ill
n a world where most people strive
to launch a single successful career,
Harvey Mackay’s flight path has been
more akin to a fireworks show. He’s
chairman of MackayMitchell Envelope
Company, a $100 million company he
founded at age 26 that manufactures 25
million envelopes a day. In addition to
being a nationally syndicated columnist
for United Features Syndicate, he has
crafted six New York Times bestsellers
on business topics. ( The Mackay MBA of
Selling in the Real World, which comes
out November 1, 2011, will undoubtedly make it seven.)
Interestingly enough, even as one
of America’s most in-demand business speakers—speaking about once a
week to Fortune 500-size companies
and associations and earning a spot
in the National Speakers Association
CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame®—he
doesn’t regard speaking as his principal
business. “I view speaking as an opportunity to share my real-life experience,”
he says. “I have always seen myself
