How a rowdy entrepreneur revved up
The Ride of a Lifetime: Doing Business the Orange County Choppers Way
By Paul Teutul Sr. with Mark Yost
Wiley, 192 pages, $24.95
By Paul Teutul Sr. with Mark Yost
Wiley, 192 pages, $24.95
Paul Teutul Sr. served in the Merchant Marine Corps during the Vietnam War, but he took plenty of hard knocks here at home. His new book bluntly describes his tough upbringing, his life as an alcoholic and, finally, what he accomplished after he got sober 24 years ago.
His motorcycle business in New York's Hudson Valley, Orange County Choppers, is famous as a result of the TV show "American Chopper." Teutul's book is a plainspoken report on how he built that company and what he learned along the way. The bottom line: "If somebody as lost and f----d up as me can get their life together and be the success that I am today, then anyone can do it."
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