Amway/Quixtar is spinning again and I have decided to set the record straight.  In Quixtar’s never ending attack on my character, they have insinuated that I have:

1. Taken funds from the Quixtar Legal Defense Fund.

2. Received profit sharing from Team while the rest of the leaders have suffered.

3. Received profits from the Launching a Leadership Revolution book.

4. Filed the Quixtar lawsuit to smear the good name of Amway/Quixtar.

5. Solicited other IBO’s to leave Quixtar.

6. Stole confidential information from the IBOAI Board.

These and probably other allegations have been posted all over the internet with no concern for the truth, objectivity or facts.  This reminds me of a Ronald Reagan quote where he stated, “The facts are pesky things.”  I am sorry Quixtar, but the facts are too pesky for these baseless allegations and I must refute the many errors.  I will not attack any individual or company, but will not allow lies against me or my friends go unaddressed.  I will address each of them now.

1. I have received no money from the Quixtar Legal Defense Fund and have provided money to various individuals who have been attacked legally by Quixtar before the QLDF was set up.  I did not set up the fund, but have verified the money is being allocated for the defense of former IBO’s who were counter sued by Quixtar.  Numerous IBO’s were seeking TRO’s to stop Quixtar from destroying their organizations by email threats, ultimatums and intimidation.  Quixtar counter sued for damages against nearly every IBO who filed for a TRO.  I feel morally bound to help in anyway I can and asked for my friends to support the Quixtar Legal Defense Fund on their behalf.

2. Profit sharing for the whole Team has been down for obvious reasons over the last seven months.  Between the numerous lawsuits, throwing away Quixtar specific tools, reduced special orders, no opens, etc. - the profit sharing pot has suffered.  Profit sharing is just that – Profit Sharing.  No one gets a special deal and everyone must bring their numbers to the table to be run through the profit sharing formula.  When there is a profit the leaders will share based on the formulas—when there is no profit then we cannot share what is not there.  Every PC member has donated from 33% to over 75% of every profit sharing check to help maintain the bonuses of the smaller profit sharing members.  The round table received their full checks (less than before but 100% of earned profit sharing.)  The smaller profits sharers received 50% or more of the actual total checks thanks to the PC leaders’ donations.  I personally refused any profit sharing on several occasions and donated over $700,000 of my personal funds to ensure others received profit sharing.  My belief is that we profit share when we win and only the top leaders should loss share when we lose.  I refused to ask anybody else on the Team to give money so I funded any exorbitant losses out of my own pocket.  The worst is over and I fully expect the profit sharing to increase as the numbers are exploding currently.  I thank all the PC members for the sacrifices they made for the good of the whole Team.

3. Chris and I have received no royalties from our book and gave 100% of the proceeds to All Grace Outreach which gives to various charities.  This is well known and I am disappointed Quixtar or their cronies would have insinuated anything but the truth here.

4. Our goal on August 9^th was to have an amicable separation.  I refused to go forward into the Amway business against my will regardless of Quixtar’s threats and intimidations.  There were less than 100 people on my personal organization that had ever been in Amway and I felt it was immoral to force people to join a business they had not signed up for.  I asked Amway/Quixtar to give people a choice just like they had when Quixtar was launched.  IBO’s were given a choice to be in Amway or Quixtar originally in 1999.  Since Quixtar had repeatedly threatened their leaders if they attempted to leave—I had our lawyers prepare a lawsuit with a standstill agreement.  The lawsuit and standstill agreements were to ensure Amway/Quixtar negotiated in good faith and would not just terminate us or pursue litigation against us.  Quixtar did not negotiate in good faith and the subsequent damage - I believe - must be laid on the shoulders of Quixtar lawyers.  All of the subsequent lawsuits and controversies on both sides could have been avoided had Quixtar management known anything about statesmanship.  Billy Florence and others called back repeatedly to Quixtar lawyers begging them to come back to the table and avoid the lawsuit.  We had no desire to smear the Amway/Quixtar name.  The company in England (DTI Illegal Pyramid Scheme), India Hyderabad(Illegal Lottery scheme), Pokorny (Pyramid and RICO violations), Nitro (Federal Anti-trust violations) – had ruined their own reputation in my opinion and did not need any further help from us.  In fact, I would argue that Chris and I as best selling authors cannot afford our name to be associated with Amway’s.  I didn’t think it would look good on our resume’ to have ‘promoters of an illegal pyramid scheme’ on it should Amway/Quixtar be shut down by any of the government agencies investigating them.  It has been over 7 and 1/2 months and I find it curious that not one point from the Quixtar Pyramid lawsuit filed in California has been refuted.  I will gladly rescind any statement from the lawsuit that Quixtar can prove with facts to be false.  Maybe the strategy of Quixtar was - if you can't refute the facts from the message - settle for an attack on the character of the messenger.

5. I have not solicited any Quixtar IBO’s and still believe strongly in the freedom to choose what business you desire to be in.  It is unconscionable in my opinion to hold people against their will in a business they do not wish to be a part of.  Quixtar has had many court dates and has not provided even one example of an IBO I have solicited.  The reason for this is because I have not solicited anyone.

6. I did not steal any information from the IBOAI Board and any information that I used in the California case was known by many non-board members.  The networking industry is a word of mouth business and nothing is ever kept secret.  Numerous board members would text their upline leaders in the middle of board meetings.  The IBOAI Board knows this and I personally believe it is ridiculous that we are being sued by our former colleagues.   We purposely left the IBOAI Board off of any litigation and realized that many Board members were intimidated by the Quixtar threats.  But 40% of the IBOAI Board chose to make a stand!  We could not sit by idly and watch the little IBO whom the board members were sworn to serve and represent be churned through a failing business.  The IBOAI board knew the business was not working – the Board confronted Quixtar – Quixtar not only refused to fix it, but changed the name back to Amway.   I feel it would be patently immoral for the Board to then sit back and do nothing about this!  The actions of Quixtar were WRONG in my opinion and not in the best interest of the field IBO’s.  I believe Confidentiality agreements should never be used to protect immoral business practices to the detriment of the field we are supposed to be representing.  As Board members we had a moral responsibility to confront the company or we were not doing our elected duty and the Board is a toothless sham.

I am sure the character assassinations by the Quixtar Spin machine are not over, but I will continue to serve people and provide the pesky facts when needed.  I love the quote, “Reputation is what other people say about you, but character is what you are.”  Quixtar can attack my reputation, but they cannot touch my character.   I hope this clarifies the facts from the spin in our ongoing issues with Amway/Quixtar.  God Bless, Orrin Woodward