Detroit Business Book

#5 on Barnes & Noble

Bestseller List Worldwide

Wes Berry’s

“Big Things”— #1 Bestseller in Business Personal Success on Amazon

Now Available as an Audiobook

“Berry offers advice and wisdom about taking care of the seemingly “little things” that add up to the difference between success and failure.”

John Kelly

Detroit Free Press Reviewer

West Bloomfield, MI – Barnes & Noble has listed Big Things Have Small Beginnings by Detroit author Wes Berry as the #5 bestselling book worldwide.

Recently The Southern California Book Festival named Big Things Have Small Beginnings as the winner of their Business category.

In this book, bestselling author, motivational speaker and business expert Wes Berry inspires, empowers and equips the reader with the tools that they need to win the Great Game, and succeed in whatever they aspire, in both business and in life. For anyone who is planning to start a business, is deeply enmeshed in one, or is just wanting to kick-start their life, this is the guide to get it done.

“It’s the relentless attention to the ‘small beginnings’ that will make all the difference,” says Berry who started in his family’s fresh flower business in a small shop in Detroit some forty years ago. Berry quickly propelled it to a $60 million-dollar international company with 30 franchises in five states and a customer base reaching 130 countries around the world.

Using inspiring stories from his own experience, Berry strategically lays the groundwork to teach others how he did it, and how they can achieve success in business—and in life.

“It’s the little things,” says Berry, “that make up the big goals you want to accomplish. Pay attention to them, to those little details, and it will all come together. Broken down into manageable steps, nearly any goal is reachable.”

Success didn’t come easy for Berry, but quitting wasn’t an option. “In business, every success I enjoyed was the result of a previous setback. Failure is only part of the Great Game,” he says. “Some of my failures were my biggest blessings in disguise. I learned from them and went forward to better things.”

Leadership is another key element in Berry’s book. Borrowing from the minds of the greatest military strategists in the world and throughout history, Wesley writes a playbook to give you the upper hand in the battlefield: all laid out in small steps, which is exactly how he did it.

“Success is owed more to a sore thumb than a pretty one.” When he stepped into his parent’s florist business during the Detroit riots, there was no money for advertising, so he had to get creative. Berry learned to barter, and soon was offering flowers to several local radio and television stations in exchange for advertising spots. Then when the internet first came out, he learned how to use it, and that’s really when his business took off.

“Jam packed with information from cover to cover, this book contains all the motivation, and advice anyone could need to succeed in their chosen business career.”

Susan Keefe, Midwest Book Review - Five-Stars

“Wise and warm counsel from a man who knows the steps, paths and little things that are the small beginnings that can blossom into success.”

          Grady Harp, Amazon Hall of Fame Top 50 Reviewer

Five-Stars

With a mentor’s heart and a voracious appetite to learn, Berry believes one of the best ways to win the Great Game is to study other leaders. “I’ve written down what I’ve learned through the years, and hope that it will help others. Leaning from somebody else’s experience is a great way to educate yourself,” says Berry.

Big Things Have Small Beginnings: Learn to Play in the Great Game, (ISBN 978-0692181843,  2018, 276 Pages, Green Dragon Services) available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Goodreads or the author’s website: www.WesleyBerry.co The audiobook is available on Amazon. You can watch the book trailer here: http://bit.ly/BigThingsTrailer

About the Author:

Wesley Berry is a best-selling author, motivational speaker and business expert. He is the host of The People’s Voice, a weekly radio talk show where opposing views can be respectfully exchanged. Through the years, he's provided consulting services to over forty businesses, served as Headmaster of a state-licensed private vocational school, and worked as a licensed real estate agent, having participated in over thirty commercial transactions. Wes has collaborated on designing sets for both ABC and CBS television shows, has appeared as a guest on several talk shows, and has been interviewed countless times by broadcast and print media. His many media appearances include: NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The London Times, Entrepreneur and Time magazines, Fox News, Neil Cavuto, Geraldo Rivera, and John Stossel. Wes has received many honors and awards and holds memberships in several organization and sits on various boards. He is very active in the Freemasons.

A dog lover, Wes enjoys fishing, and is constantly humbled by his golf game. He and his wife Mia have four sons and have been married for thirty years. They reside in West Bloomfield, Michigan.

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Wesley Berry is a best-selling author, motivational speaker and business expert. He is the host of The People’s Voice, a weekly radio talk show where opposing views can be respectfully exchanged. Through the years, he's provided consulting services to over forty businesses, served as Headmaster of a state-licensed private vocational school, and worked as a licensed real estate agent, having participated in over thirty commercial transactions. Wes has collaborated on designing sets for both ABC and CBS television shows, has appeared as a guest on several talk shows, and has been interviewed countless times by broadcast and print media. His many media appearances include: NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The London Times, Entrepreneur and Time magazines, Fox News, Neil Cavuto, Geraldo Rivera, and John Stossel. Wes has received many honors and awards and holds memberships in several organization and sits on various boards. He is very active in the Freemasons.

A dog lover, Wes enjoys fishing, and is constantly humbled by his golf game. He and his wife Mia have four sons and have been married for thirty years. They reside in West Bloomfield, Michigan.

Excerpts from

Big Things Have Small Beginnings:

Learn to Play in the Great Game

The Great Game never ends…unless you decide to quit.

The Great Game is not just a single roll of the dice.

It’s the relentless attention to the “small beginnings” that will make all the difference.

Get those “small beginnings” done—on time— and you can be assured of reaching the Big Things.

The “Big Things”—the successes—all start with some very small beginnings.

Ambition makes us people with a purpose.

Ambition is a powerful sword, and appreciably so when it’s wielded by a person of integrity.

Truly ambitious people would rather taste defeat than never wear the laurel wreaths of victory.

Ambition, greed, and all the baser forms—thought of as the darker side of human nature—are simply tools.

There is no place else in the world where a business mind can have a greater potential for success than right here in the US.

When things get tough—as they do nearly every day--it’s your “why” that’ll get you out of bed in the morning.

Nothing in business gets done without a due date.

Time management is your key to being able to focus on what is important for your business.

Make time your friend, and it will help pave the road to success like few other elements can.

I am the builder of who I will be. And I alone am responsible for everything that happens in my life. Whatever happens to me, it is I myself who attracts it to me.

You’ve got to visualize your goals, even if you don’t know right now how the devil you’re ever going to accomplish them, and then let your mind lead the way.

Stay on that cutting edge. Success absolutely requires it.

A critical element of any business is competition, and it can be mighty fierce.

Your competition is working every bit as hard as you are to grab more market share than you can.

If you want to lead, you must study successful, effective leaders.

Develop high-quality leaders at all levels.

An educated person is one who knows how to produce more than he consumes.

About Wesley Berry, author of Big Things Have Small Beginnings: Learn to Play in the Great Game

Wesley Berry started working at his family’s Detroit-based florist shop when he was a teenager. He quickly demonstrated a strategic style of management that propel it from a $60K per year business to a $60 million-dollar international business operating in 130 different countries. In 2016, after 40 years in business, he sold it to “retire” and follow other passions.

Garnering from his years of experience working with radio stations, Wes is currently the host of The People’s Voice, a weekly radio talk show that features both controversial and unifying topics.

As Wesley himself says it, “As the show’s host, I’m being guided by the principle that reasonable people can disagree without being disagreeable. Polite discourse of controversial subjects is fundamental to a civil society, and The People’s Voice is committed to providing a forum where opposing views can be respectfully exchanged.”

Through the years, he's provided consulting services to over forty businesses, served as Headmaster of a state-licensed private vocational school, and worked as a licensed real estate agent, having participated in over thirty commercial transactions.

Wes has collaborated on designing sets for both ABC and CBS television shows, has appeared as a guest on several talk shows, and has been interviewed countless times by broadcast and print media. His many media appearances include: NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The London Times, Entrepreneur and Time magazines, Fox News, Neil Cavuto, Geraldo Rivera, and John Stossel, to name a just few.

Wes has received many honors and awards, including:

• 2003 - Pheasant Ring Autistic Community Ring of Hope Community Service Award
• 2008 - NAACP Oakland County Chapter’s Corporate Leadership Award
• 2008 - Florist Review Magazine’s Retail Florist of the Year for Community Involvement
• 2008 - Chamber of Commerce honoree as Business Person of the Year
• 2011 - Inc. Magazine's Top 500|5000-ranked Fastest Growing Retailer
• 2011 - Optimist Club’s Person of the Year
• 2012 - Optimist International’s Business Person of the Year Michigan District
• 2014 - Civil rights organization United We Walk’s Community Leader Award
• 2016 - Commissioned Honorary Naval Commander (O-5) by Michigan Governor Schneider

Wes has held memberships in: The Detroit Economic Club, Adcraft Club of Detroit, Rotary International, Optimists International, NAACP, Shriners International, Wabeek Country Club, Detroit Athletic Club, Detroit Gun Club, NRA, and at Kirk in the Hills Presbyterian Church, where he’s taught Sunday School, ushered, and served on its Board of Trustees. He has also served on the boards of an Educational Foundation, Community Youth Assistance, and Henry Ford Hospital.

Wes is a Freemason and currently serves as a Trustee of the Michigan Masonic Charitable Foundation. He also volunteers with a community group that provides wheelchair ramps to those in need. He’s a graduate of Oakland Technical Center, completing the Floriculture & AgroSciences Program.

A dog lover, Wes enjoys fishing, and is constantly humbled by his golf game. He and his wife Mia have four sons and have been married for thirty years. They reside in West Bloomfield.