Ben Swett of Windowbox.com, a gardening-supply company, says Vernon's bureaucrats spend just days, or even hours, on a permit application that would take months in the city of Los Angeles.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and hotelier Orison Swett Marden's Success magazine (founded in 1897) were mere warm-ups to Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) and Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking (1952).