"Dave Kekich Credos and His Heroes Interview Inspire You and Teach You the Secrets Of Success"
22. The value of any service you have to offer diminishes rapidly once it's provided. Protect your compensation before performing.
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Ralph Zuranski: Yeah; I can imagine so. Well, who do you think are the real heroes in our society today who are not getting the recognition and rewards that they deserve?
Dave Kekich: I think while generally entrepreneurs and business leaders are becoming a little more popular, they are still being more vilified than glorified, in the entertainment industry, especially. And in the press.
You get a lot of bad press; people attack them, and when people rise to the top, they tend to get attacked, but the entertainment industry seems to glorify more villains, more drug dealers, and when they portray business people, they often portray them as evil, conniving, destructive, greedy people.
In reality, sure, every field has those kinds of people, but most successful business people and entrepreneurs are exactly the opposite.
Ralph Zuranski: Yeah, I really believe that is true. Well, why are heroes so important to the lives of young people?
Dave Kekich: Young people are impressionable; the most impressionable times of your life are when you are young. That can be good or bad, and other people are just going to sway them, and that is why it is important to have heroes sway them rather than some of their peers and the media who are at the opposite end of the spectrum, and don't forget the media.
Don’t attack the media because a lot of it is great, but it is entertaining, and business and entrepreneurs maybe aren't very entertaining. Maybe killers and thieves and drug dealers are more entertaining than entrepreneurs and business people.
But the media impresses young people's peers, your children's peers, and they, in turn, impress your children, and often in a negative way, so I think many of the wrong people are emulated, and that is why it is important when people are at their most impressionable ages, they are given heroes, real heroes, to emulate.
"Dave Kekich Credos and His Heroes Interview Inspire You and Teach You the Secrets Of Success"
David co-founded Exceptional Producers, Inc., the country's largest life insurance master general agency, which raised $3.1 billion of premium income for First Executive Corp., co-founded a national financial services company and arranged venture capital funding for private companies for 11 years.
He is a recognized expert on private investing and authored the venture capital handbook "How the Rich Get Richer With Quiet Private Investments".
David founded both public and private companies, was engaged as a consultant and served as director to numerous public and private corporations. He also sold and developed real estate.
In 1999, Mr. Kekich founded the "Maximum Life Foundation", a 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to curing aging related diseases. He founded MaxLife Capital, a venture capital group for life sciences industries targeting anti-aging technologies. He also co-founded Stem Cell Products, LLC, a privately held biotech company specializing in stem cell signaling factors and advanced peptide technologies.
David serves as a Board Member of the American Aging Association He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University and studied under Dr. Andrew J. Galambos at the Free Enterprise Institute for two years.
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Anonymous (all those wonderful insightful heroes who influenced me one way or another, either consciously or unconsciously, but whose names I can't attach to any particular Credo.)