Must-Read Book about Leadership & Motivation
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Carol “Stash” Stanley, along with over two dozen Visionary Entrepreneurs, is featured in a new book “The Entrepreneurial Impact: The Purpose, Influence, and Value Businesses Create Beyond Their Own Growth”. Available now on Amazon.com.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (November 9, 2026)
This book brings together the stories of founders who are building businesses that create value beyond the bottom line, from transforming industries and developing new solutions to supporting customers, creating opportunities, and shaping the communities around them. Honest, inspiring, and thought-provoking, these chapters explore the many forms entrepreneurial impact can take and the ways businesses can influence the people and world around them.
“An invention can sit on a shelf. A patent can hang on a wall. An award can collect dust. But an opportunity given to another person can change the direction of a life. That is the distinction I have come to care about most in entrepreneurship: not simply what I built, but what became possible because I built it.”
“An idea, however, is only the beginning. Turning it into something useful requires testing, criticism, persistence, and the willingness to hear "no" without taking it personally. It took more than three years to bring LaceLocker® to market, including the challenge of finding a U.S. manufacturer. I learned to interpret rejection differently. When someone tells me no, I often think I have not yet asked the right question, of the right person, at the right time. That mindset keeps me moving. In sales, getting one yes out of 10 asks can be a good result if you are willing to withstand the nine answers that came first.”
“I believe we are given abilities and experiences that can be used for
something beyond ourselves. Giving back should not be something we
postpone until everything else is finished. It can become part of the reason we build in the first place. When I eventually have to answer for what I did with the energy and opportunities I was given, I want to say that I used them fully. I emptied the tank every day. And if something I built continues opening doors after I am gone, then I will know the idea became bigger than me.”
Carol “Stash” Stanley
Learn about “The Difference An Idea Can Make”, plus other motivational insights, in “The Entrepreneurial Impact: The Purpose, Influence, and Value Businesses Create Beyond Their Own Growth”, available on Amazon.com
Carol “Stash” Stanley is a Distinguished Alumna of SUNY Fredonia, Greater Syracuse Sports Hall of Fame Inductee, Bishop Ludden High School Inaugural Athletic Hall of Fame Inductee, former Ohio State Assistant Softball Coach, former University Registrar at the University of Virginia, founded the varsity softball team at SUNY Binghamton, has a B.A. degree from State University of New York at Fredonia, earned a Master’s degree in Kinesiology from State University of New York at Cortland and a Master’s degree in Information Science from Drexel University, and coinvented the STAN-MILL MITT, the first product to be invented by a woman that is part of the permanent collection in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
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