(PRE-ORDER) GREAT TIMES AND TAN LINES: How I Created Hawaiian Tropic, Turned it into a Billion-Dollar Company

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(PRE-ORDER) GREAT TIMES AND TAN LINES: How I Created Hawaiian Tropic, Turned it into a Billion-Dollar Company

.. You just never know when your time will be up. When I pictured the ideal life, I pictured living on the beach walking barefoot in the sand while wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a straw hat. And I succeeded at that. I never had to wear a suit to work or punch a time clock, not since leaving the teaching profession anyway … I always tried to avoid weddings and funerals like the Plague, but I do realize they are a part of life and sometimes unavoidable. I preferred a good party instead. I never for once took for granted where I was born, either. What a great country we live in. My life just proves that if you have great ideas, or even one great idea, and you are willing to work hard, it may make you rich beyond your wildest dreams. Not that money is everything, as we all know. I want to be known and remembered as a good person … “

— RON RICE

“Success opened a lot of doors for me. Having money didn’t hurt, either. Or having dozens of the prettiest girls in the world, either as my company’s models, employees or girlfriends, always helped, too. I really can’t remember all my interactions with the rich and famous of the world because there were thousands … I skied with Sonny Bono on the same mountain in Lake Tahoe on which he died just weeks later. I double-dated with O.J. Simpson on one New Year’s Eve, the same night before he apparently beat his wife Nicole when she made that infamous 911 call, pleading for help as he was attacking her. I had a hand in introducing President Trump to his second wife. I hired Paul Newman for one very successful marketing venture. I counted Burt Reynolds, Michael Douglas and Sylvester Stallone, among several other actors, as friends. I was good friends with the explorer Jacques Cousteau and once gave him one of my large sailboats. I related to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner very well and admired him to no end. Then he became a good friend, but I also cringed when the media compared me and my life to his … It all was one unbelievable, amazing, wild ride.”