Quench Your Own Thirst: Business Lessons Learned Over a Beer or Two by Jim Koch

Quench Your Own Thirst: Business Lessons Learned Over a Beer or Two

Jim Koch
272 pages
Flatiron Books, 2016.
Apr 2016
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<p><b>Founder of The Boston Beer Company, brewer of Samuel Adams Boston Lager, and a key catalyst of the American craft beer revolution, Jim Koch offers his unique perspective when it comes to business, beer, and turning your passion into a successful company or career.</b></p><p>In 1984, it looked like an unwinnable David and Goliath struggle: one guy against the mammoth American beer industry. When others scoffed at Jim Koch's plan to leave his consulting job and start a brewery that would challenge American palates, he chose a nineteenth-century family recipe and launched Samuel Adams. Now one of America's leading craft breweries, Samuel Adams has redefined the way Americans think about beer and helped spur a craft beer revolution.</p><p>In <i>Quench Your Own Thirst</i>, Koch offers unprecedented insights into the whirlwind ride from scrappy start-up to thriving public company. His innovative business model and refreshingly frank stories offer counterintuitive lessons that you can apply to business and to life.</p><p>Koch covers everything from finding your own Yoda to his theory on how a piece of string can teach you the most important lesson you'll ever learn about business. He also has surprising advice on sales, marketing, hiring, and company culture. Koch's anecdotes, quirky musings, and bits of wisdom go far beyond brewing. A fun, engaging guide for building a career or launching a successful business based on your passions, <i>Quench Your Own Thirst</i> is the key to the ultimate dream: being successful while doing what you love.</p>
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Cheers (and five stars) to Mr. Koch!

This book was a very entertaining and insightful look into what is clearly a very creative and brilliant mind. Jim Koch has clearly thought a great deal about how to run a company, and his wisdom here is worth far more than the price I paid for the book. This isn't so much a how-to guide for starting a business or even a biography. Rather, the book reads as a series of anecdotes that progress roughly from the beginning of the Boston Beer Company to the present day. Koch's writing style is extremely clear and, at times, quite lively and feisty. It is a short read - or at least it seemed that way since I couldn't put the book down. Not only that, I was so impressed with the business that Koch has built that I immediately went out and purchased shares of the company (which as of this writing are down significantly from the highs - and much cheaper than the big brewers). I mainly bought this book because I enjoy Sam Adams beer and was interested in what Koch had to say, but after reading Koch's stories I am even more of a fan. Read more

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Pages 272
Publisher Flatiron Books, 2016...
Published 2016
Readers 3