Inc. Magazine
Fortune Magazine
The Wall Street Journal
USA Today
NPR
Success Magazine
“Bill Bartmann survived failure, remade one of the country's ugliest industries, and became a billionaire.”
Inc. magazine
“Bill Bartmann is a Populist Capitalist. Bill Bartmann…put a seedy and inefficient industry on the road to respectability.”
“Bill Bartmann has built a big business of bad debt. He also may have made bill collectors kinder and gentler. And on the way, he became one of the USA's richest men. None of it would have happened if he hadn't gone broke.”
“Patron Saint of the Second Chance. A second chance. Who better to offer it than Bill Bartmann.”
“Although Bartmann lost his company, he managed to turn his loss into an opportunity that made him a billionaire and changed an entire industry.”
Chris Arnold - National Public Radio
“Determined to make good on what he owed rather than declare bankruptcy, Bartmann persuaded his bank to lend him the money to get into…the debt collections business! He started by purchasing a cheap package of bad FDIC loans and from there built a $182 million empire and a reputation as the industry’s kindest collector.”