Tom Chappell

7 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 11, 2017 by Tom Chappell · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Dec 11, 2017 neutral
Assertion Supported
Tom Chappell: Norman Rockwell recruited him at 10 for a magazine cover
“As a matter of fact, Norman Rockwell found me At a choir practice in Pittsfield, Massachusetts at St. Stephen's Church, pulled me out and asked if I wanted to be on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post, and I was 10 years old, I had never heard of the Saturd…”
Tom Chappell Dec 11, 2017 ▶ 2:29 Tom's Of Maine: Tom Chappell
Dec 11, 2017
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Tom's of Maine launched with a $5,000 loan backed by IBM stock
“I asked a friend to put up 5000 dollars. He and his wife were involved in the creation of this new alternative school in Kennebunk called The School Around Us. We became good friends, and I told him of my idea, and, ah, he had some IBM stock and took it to the…”
Tom Chappell Dec 11, 2017 ▶ 8:07 Tom's Of Maine: Tom Chappell
Dec 11, 2017 negative
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Chappell: Ranked #1 salesman at Aetna but received only a $600 raise
“Well, I was the number one salesman in my class of 65 people, but I was then given my raise. The raise was 600 dollars, and then I found out the lowest raise was 300 dollars.”
Tom Chappell Dec 11, 2017 ▶ 3:17 Tom's Of Maine: Tom Chappell
Dec 11, 2017
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Chappell: The Norman Rockwell painting featuring him was offered for $750,000
“So they said it's been valued at 750,000 dollars, and they wanted me to have the First chance to buy it.”
Tom Chappell Dec 11, 2017 ▶ 31:26 Tom's Of Maine: Tom Chappell
Dec 11, 2017 positive
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Tom's of Maine gave employees 5% of paid time for volunteer work
“We would organize that charity work or they would elect to do what they wanted to do in the community. It might be literacy work. It could be helping on the Appalachian Trail. It was generally community-based, environmental-based needs. Then they loved it. I m…”
Tom Chappell Dec 11, 2017 ▶ 22:44 Tom's Of Maine: Tom Chappell
Dec 11, 2017
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Chappell: Tom's of Maine fired zero employees over the 1992 deodorant recall
“No, I think I took the hit for that. No, we didn't fire anybody.”
Tom Chappell Dec 11, 2017 ▶ 25:19 Tom's Of Maine: Tom Chappell
Dec 11, 2017 negative
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Chappell: Tom's of Maine stalled with zero new products for four years
“The crisis was that we had achieved our strategic benchmarks, and I was feeling quite empty because we hadn't created a new product in four years.”
Tom Chappell Dec 11, 2017 ▶ 18:40 Tom's Of Maine: Tom Chappell
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