“Your corporate culture is marked by zealotry....

“Your corporate culture is marked by zealotry. Your high-pressure way of doing business clashes with the friendly, caring and gracious manner of our representatives. . . . You are deluding yourself if you think our two companies could coexist under Amway management.”--from an open letter by Avon Products Chairman James E. Preston rejecting a takeover bid, since withdrawn, by Amway Corp.