My father is the chapter president of his club in Connecticut. He swears by it. I have been to his club twice and plan on going to one in San Francisco tomorrow, the rhino club I believe...
My father is the best salesman I know. He could sell noise-canceling headphones to deaf people, and I want to earn that confidence by going to toastmasters.
I worked at the Clarkson University library for three years and learned the software used to manage library databases is a huge contributor to the problem. I'd love to do something about it if the chance presented itself.
Actual Lesser Known Traits of Successful Founders:
1. Private high school
2. Supportive parents/mentors/friends (most likely parents, if on the younger side)
3. Sleep deprived, yet energetic
4. Addiction-prone
5. Nothing to lose
Just a few trends I have noticed over the past year.
Boiler Room is one of my favs. Even though Glengarry Glen Ross was relatively boring, I like this line:
"It takes brass balls to sell real estate."
Then he turns around and he is holding brass balls. A-B-C is the best pitch ever in a movie, after greed is good of course.
If you want a great example of how to deal with rejection, come to Haight Ashbury and watch the homeless people ask for change. Sometimes if they have a good enough pitch, I'll give them a dollar. There was one guy giving "bad advice" and he told me to give him my credit card and to have unprotected sex with an intravenous drug user.
I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them! The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you very much.
Jesus you can't make a buck in this market, the country's goin' to hell faster than when that son of a bitch Roosevelt was in charge. Too much cheap money sloshing around the world. The worst mistake we ever made was letting Nixon get off the gold standard.