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Reviewed by Romuald Dzemo for Readers' Favorite
More Than Just Luck by Greg Wier describes his painful rise from a disadvantaged childhood in a Michigan trailer park. He had an abusive alcoholic father and a teenage parenthood. This is the story of how he beat the odds to become a multimillionaire security industry titan. Greg started off his four-decade journey working through the seedy underbelly of private security. He started with Burns International, where he was a guard earning $4 an hour, and went on to found Progressive Security and Prudential Alarm. Wier chronicles disturbing experiences that include assassination attempts by business partners, IRS audits, mob-connected lottery schemes, FTC battles, and forays into the music industry. He exposes the corruption, the illusion of safety endemic in the service industry, and sexual harassment.
Warning: this book is written for adults, and if you don’t like swear words and irreverent language, think twice before picking it up. Greg Wier has a “no-holds-barred" tone throughout the narrative. He describes life as a bare-knuckle fistfight, and you can sense his combative spirit in the way he describes people with gleeful abandon. But what captivated me most were the hard-won lessons hidden beneath the profanity-laced bravado, including the dangers of vice and complacency, the absolute necessity for loyalty, and the principle that “no one cares about you but yourself.” More Than Just Luck is more than a business memoir with lessons on success; it is also a book that delivers a gritty exposé of the security industry in Detroit. The author captures the tension from Mario’s restaurant to detailing the transactional “whore business” of corporate America, where everyone is considered a whore, and we just sell different parts of ourselves.
