Article: The home team. (excerpt from Jay Van Andel's autobiography 'An Enterprising Life')

It is apparent that of all his spectacular successes, Jay Van Andel reflects with most pleasure on the time he found to spend with Betty rearing their four remarkable children.

Editor's Note: For some, the entrepreneurial spirit starts early. As a schoolboy at age 15, Jay Van Andel offered a classmate a daily ride to school in his Model A Ford in exchange for 25 cents a week in gas money. The classmate was none other than Rich DeVos, and thus was launched a partnership and friendship that would eventually build a multibillion-dollar business called Amway.

The Amway Corporation actually began in the basement of the Van Andel home in Grand Rapids, ...

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