{"id":6282,"date":"2010-05-13T14:10:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T14:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/05\/business-folks-what-do-you-see.html"},"modified":"2010-05-13T14:10:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T14:10:10","slug":"business-folks-what-do-you-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/05\/business-folks-what-do-you-see.html","title":{"rendered":"Business folks, what do you see here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Amish are perhaps the most successful when it comes to business. <b><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/05\/04\/smallbusiness\/amish_business_success\/\">Here&#8217;s a clip from a recent article<\/a><\/b>:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\">\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 20px;margin-left: 0px;padding-top: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-left-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-color: initial;font-size: 14px;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: transparent;line-height: 20px\">(CNNMoney.com) &#8212; Want to find America&#8217;s most successful entrepreneurs? Skip Silicon Valley and Manhattan; head to the rural Amish enclaves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 20px;margin-left: 0px;padding-top: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-left-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-color: initial;font-size: 14px;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: transparent;line-height: 20px\">Amish businesses have an eye-popping 95% success rate at staying open at least five years, according to author Erik Wesner&#8217;s new book,&nbsp;<i>Success Made Simple: An Inside Look at Why Amish Businesses Thrive<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p> It&#8217;s a statistic he backs up with a variety of academic surveys, drawing particularly on a 2009 report by Elizabethtown College sociology professor Donald Kraybill. Studying several Amish settlements, Kraybill found failure rates ranging from 2.6% and 4.2%; interviews with loan officers, accountants and industry professions in other Amish regions yielded additional anecdotal evidence of closure rates significantly south of 10%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 20px;margin-left: 0px;padding-top: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-left-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-color: initial;font-size: 14px;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: transparent;line-height: 20px\">Compare that to the average five-year survival rate for new businesses across the United States, which hovers just under 50%. So what&#8217;s the secret?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Amish are perhaps the most successful when it comes to business. 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