Heroes and Heroines Are Self-Confident Enough to Not Make Other People Wrong Even Though They Could Say, "I Told You So." When Others Make A Mistake
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
[ William James ]
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
[ William James ]
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them. Goethe
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. Saint Thomas Aquinas
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. Abraham Lincoln
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. Dale Carnegie
Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never met.
--Anonymous
If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It's about them.
--Jack Welch
Yesterday is a cancelled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely. --Kim Lyons
Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never met.
--Anonymous
If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It's about them.
--Jack Welch
Yesterday is a cancelled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely. --Kim Lyons
You have to make friends with the truth whether you like it or not.
[ Jean Lynch ]
Perserverance is not a long race- it is many short races one after another.
[ Walter Elliott ]
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
[ Dale Carnegie ]
"Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor,
play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between
reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually
think about eventually will manifest in our lives."
Robert Collier: Was an inspirational author
I keep my friends as misers do their treasures, because, of all things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
[ Pietro Aretino ]
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a Leader
[ John Quincy Adams ]
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
[ Vince Lombardi ]
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
[ H. Norman Schwarzopf ]
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
[ Cherokee Expression ]
"Man is a magnet, and every line and dot and
detail of his experiences come by his own attraction."
— Elizabeth Towne: Was a writer, editor, publisher of self-help books
How true this is. We become what we think about all day long. Napoleon Hill said it so eloquently.
Here is one of my other favorite quotes.
Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.
[ Jameson Frank ]
Everyone struggles with FEAR. There are so many things to fear that are only False Evidence Appearing Real. The real challenge it to make peace between our two brain hemisphere personalities and achieve our ultimate potential as a balanced, enlightened being.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
[ George Bernard Shaw ]
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. [ Andrew Carnegie ]
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It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged.
[ Edward W. Ziegler ]
Take into account that great life and great achievement involve great risk.
[ Dalai Lama ]
If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
[ Julia Sorel ]
The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
[ Ayn Rand ]
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
[ Theodore Roosevelt ]
It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
[ Somerset Maugham ]
It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
[ Somerset Maugham ]
50. Producing results is more important than proving you're right. To get things done, try to understand others' frames of references, points of view, needs and wants. Then determine what is honest, fair, effective and rational... and act accordingly.
"Dave Kekich Credos 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.
714-641-0700/Fax 714-464-4135
www.maxlife.org
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.)
73. Nothing wins more often than superior preparation. Genius is usually preparation.
"Dave Kekich Credos 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.
714-641-0700/Fax 714-464-4135
www.maxlife.org
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.)
Long term success is built on credibility and on establishing enduring loving relationships with quality people based on mutually earned trust. Cut all ties with dishonest, negative or lazy people, and associate with people who share your values. You become whom you associate with.
"Dave Kekich Credos 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.
714-641-0700/Fax 714-464-4135
www.maxlife.org
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.)
Always have options. Options are a primary source of power. Power also comes from stripping away appearances and seeing things as they really are.
71. To maximize opportunities, seek and master the complicated. The major solutions you find will be surprisingly simple, and the competition is minimal.
69. There is no such thing as a good idea unless it is developed and utilized.
70. For maximum profits, identify and market universal needs, wants and trends. Creating desire, satisfying needs and wants and replacing problems with creative innovations are the essence of profit generation.
68. There are an infinite number of new opportunities. Actively seek them out, and position yourself to recognize and take advantage of them.
65. Bitterness, jealousy and anger empower your enemies and enslave you. Negative thinking results in the destruction of property. It is anti-property, therefore anti-capitalistic and anti-life. It also erodes your health. Forgive, learn your lessons, and get on with your life.
67. High self-esteem can only come from moral productivity and achievement.
63. Never enter into a contract unless all parties benefit. But no partnership is ever 50/50. There will always be inequities.
62. If your purpose of life is security, you will be a failure. Security is the lowest form of happiness.
61. Never be deceptive when trying to achieve a personal gain. Shortchanging others results in loss of self-esteem.
64. Review the basics of your profession at least once per year.
66. Most people spend 90% of their time on what they're not best at and what they don't like doing - and only 10% of their time on their best and most enjoyable ability. Geniuses delegate the 90%... and spend all their time on their "unique ability".
59. The foundation of achievement is intense desire. The world's highest achievers have the highest levels of dissatisfaction. Those with the lowest levels are the failures. The best way to build desire is to make resolute choices for the future.
58. You are responsible for exactly who, what and where you are in life. That will be just as true this time next year. Situations aren't important. How you react to them is. You have to play it where it lies.
53. Spend more time working "on" your business than "in" your business.
52. Don't be preoccupied with things over which you have no control, and don't take things personally.
54. Don't enter into a business relationship with anyone unknown to you without being furnished with references dating back at least 10 years. If he doesn't have good enduring relationships, stay away. Check all representations on which you will rely made by everyone.
55. Enjoy life. Treat it as an adventure. Care passionately about the outcome, but keep it in perspective. Things are seldom as bleak as they seem when they are going wrong - or as good as they seem when they are going well. Lighten up. You'll live longer.
56. Identify exactly what it is you want. This takes a lot of thought. Then don't let anything stand in your way of getting it.
57. You can get any job done through the sheer force of will when combined with uncompromising integrity and competence. Strong leadership is the key.
60. Integrate every aspect of your life (body, mind, spirit, relationships, business) and each within itself. Integrating means understanding and digesting a process... and seeing relationships among seemingly unrelated phenomena. It's a sign of innovative genius.
74. Patience is profitable. Achievement comes from the sum of consistent small efforts, repeated daily.
"Dave Kekich Credos 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.
714-641-0700/Fax 714-464-4135
www.maxlife.org
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.)
50. Producing results is more important than proving you're right. To get things done, try to understand others' frames of references, points of view, needs and wants. Then determine what is honest, fair, effective and rational... and act accordingly.
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48. If someone lies to you once, he'll lie to you a thousand times. Lying is for thieves and cowards.
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48. If someone lies to you once, he'll lie to you a thousand times. Lying is for thieves and cowards.
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48. If someone lies to you once, he'll lie to you a thousand times. Lying is for thieves and cowards.
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47. The right thing is usually not the easy thing to do. You may sacrifice popularity for rightness, but you'll lose self-esteem for wrongness. Don't be afraid to say "no".
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46. First impressions are lasting impressions. Put your best foot forward. People treat you like you teach them to treat you. A success key is positioning yourself at the top of their agenda.
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45. Out-think, out-innovate and out-hustle the competition, and vividly visualize yourself as winning before entering into every deal or competitive situation. Maintain a blood-smelling, fighter pilot life-or-death attitude when any deal gets near to a close.
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44. An hour of effective, precise, hard, disciplined - and integrated thinking can be worth a month of hard work. Thinking is the very essence of, and the most difficult thing to do in business and in life. Empire builders spend hour-after-hour on mental work... while others party. If you're not consciously aware of putting forth the effort to exert self-guided integrated thinking... if you don't act beyond your feelings and take the path of least resistance, then you give in to laziness, make bad decisions and no longer control your life.
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43. Take full responsibility for your actions or lack of action. He who errs must pay. This is an easy concept to grasp from the recipient's end.
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41. There is no such thing as "just a little theft" or "just a little dishonesty".
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41. There is no such thing as "just a little theft" or "just a little dishonesty".
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40. It takes almost the same amount of time and energy to manage tiny projects or businesses as it does to manage massive ones... and the massive ones carry with them - proportional rewards.
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39. By adhering to a strong honest philosophy, you will remain guiltless, blameless, independent and maintain control over your life. Without a sound philosophy, your life will eventually crumble.
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38. That which is most satisfying is that which is earned. Anything received free of charge is seldom valued. You can't get something for (from) nothing. The price is too high.
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Ralph Zuranski: Yes, Arnold was one of my Heroes too, along with Steven Seagal. I always was impressed with what they did with their lives, and how they stood for what was clear, is good, and what was clear, is evil.
That brings us to the next question. What is your perspective on goodness, ethics and moral behavior?
Jason Potash: I’m a big believer in karma and what goes around comes around. All throughout my business career and even just my personal life, I’ve been a big believer in laying your cards on the table and being ethical and being honest, not trying to be deceptive or try to do something that can bite you in the butt.
I’ve worked for individuals and I’ve worked beside individuals who have tried to be deceptive, sneaky and tricky. The kind of people where you shake their hand they will give you a good smile and a wink, and you turn your back and they’ve got a knife raised, ready to jab you right in the spine, so to speak.
I really do think, and I’ve seen it happen again and again where it does come around to haunt you, if not today, then tomorrow. But if you keep growing your business and conducting business, it being a shady dealer, or being unethical or misleading people, or just scamming people outright, that does come back to haunt you.
From day one it’s based upon my morals of my family. From day one, I’ve been totally upfront and ethical with people, tried to provide good service to people, good value to people without taking their money and closing down a business and opening up a new business two weeks later, which as you know, happens more often than not.
I’ve always been solidly grounded, if you will, in terms of being ethical and upfront with people. The bottom line is, Ralph, doing unto others as I’d like to have them to do unto me, treating my customers and associates the way that I would like to be treated as well.
If you do that, and you have a clean nose, you have nothing to worry about and you don’t have to look over your shoulder wondering who is trying to either issue a lawsuit or who is trying to slander you or is trying to come knock at your door to collect money, or whatever.
You don’t have those worries. And I think it’s a great feeling when you don’t always have to sit behind your desk and live in fear that somebody or someone is going to come knocking at your door because you did something two weeks ago, two months ago or two years ago that really aggravated people, and now its payback time. It’s coming back to haunt you.
38. That which is most satisfying is that which is earned. Anything received free of charge is seldom valued. You can't get something for (from) nothing. The price is too high.
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37. Business is the highest evolution of consciousness and morality. The essences of business are: honesty, effort, responsibility, integration, creativity, objectivity, long-range planning, intensity, effectiveness, discipline, thought and control. Business is life on all levels at all times.
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Life is a magic vase filled to the brim- so made that you cannot dip into it nor draw from it- but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it-drop in malice and it overflows hate- drop in charity and it overflows love.
[ John Ruskin ]
"Life is a magic vase filled to the brim- so made that you cannot dip into it nor draw from it- but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it-drop in malice and it overflows hate- drop in charity and it overflows love.
[ John Ruskin ]
35. Stress kills. No matter how painful in the short-term, remove all chronically stressful situations, environments and people from your life.
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33. If the situation is not right in the long term, walk away from it. Maintain a long term outlook in all endeavors. Live like you don't have much time left... but plan as if you'll live for centuries.
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Life is a magic vase filled to the brim- so made that you cannot dip into it nor draw from it- but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it-drop in malice and it overflows hate- drop in charity and it overflows love.
[ John Ruskin ]
34. Invest only after strict and complete due diligence. Don't allow yourself to be rushed. Make important decisions carefully, consider your gut feelings... then pull the trigger.
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32. Do not compromise if you are right. Hold your ground, show no fear, ask for what you want, and the opposition will usually agree.
"That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong."
— William J. H. Boetcker
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
— John Quincy Adams
"The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth."
— Pierre Abelard
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an Honest Man.
[ George Washington ]
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an Honest Man.
[ George Washington ]
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an Honest Man.
[ George Washington ]
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
— Annie Dillard
Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.
[ Nietzsche ]
You can't fly a kite unless you go against the wind and have a weight to keep it from turning a somersault. The same with man. No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.
[ William J.H. Boetcker ]
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments."
— Jim Rohn
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
[ English proverb ]
There is always hope for an individual who stops to do some serious thinking about life.
[ Katherine Logan ]
"Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment."
— H. Ross Perot
"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self."
— Napoleon Hill
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse- however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
[ Goethe ]
Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul - and sings the tune without words, and never stops - at all.
[ Emily Dickinson ]
Fear less, hope more- whine less, breathe more- talk less, say more- hate less, love more- and all good things are yours.
[ Swedish Proverb ]
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, What are you going through?
[ Simone Weil ]
"Most people fail in life because they major in minor things."
- Anthony Robbins
Make no little plans- they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans- aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
[ Daniel H. Burnham ]
"Most people fail in life because they major in minor things."
- Anthony Robbins
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. (1914-1995, Virologist, Discovered The First Vaccine Against Poliomyelitis)
[ Dr. Jonas Salk ]