Omar Khan is a CFA charterholder with 10 years of investing across real estate and commodities. He has arranged $3.7 billion in capital financing and M&A transactions, as well as syndicated large multi-million dollar deals across the US. He has also advised high net-worth individuals and entrepreneurs on real estate portfolio allocations. Omar is a Global citizen – lived in Dubai,Toronto, Calgary and Dallas
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Omar’s family
- Omar’s dad’s friend
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Marketing. I wasn’t necessarily as good at it… I am still learning a lot about it and I am not a natural at it. But that was the biggest one, just getting the word out there. Because it serves no purpose if you are the best operator on the planet but nobody knows about you”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Thinking, Fast and Slow Book by Daniel Kahneman
- Great Expectations Book by Charles Dickens
Favourite Quote:
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. it’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so” Mark Twain
Recommended Online Resources:
- Google – Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
- Reading daily newspapers around the world
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“take your income and divide it by the number of hours – that’s what you get. Anything that is below that finder where to either partner with somebody who can do it or find a way to give it to somebody else who can then do it. And nobody is ever going to do it 100% like you would but as long as you get to about 80, 85% that’s okay. You have got to let things go because now you can channel your energies and focus your attention on bigger items”…[Listen for More]
More About Omar Khan:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.” Arianna Huffington
Other Quotes From the Chat with Omar Khan:
- “I leveraged heavily into my background”
- “you have got to focus on your strengths. Because the way I look at it is yeah you can focus on your weakness but all this time you are going to waste time focusing on your weaknesses you can just hire somebody or partner with somebody and they can take over that part of the game while you become a superstar in your arena ”
- “I feel that everything is a learning process”
- “you make a mistake; you learn and you don’t repeat it again”
- “a lot of times what happens in life is we are not dealt the ideal hand but we have to play the hand that we are dealt with”
- “a lot of times it is good to be prepared but preparation only takes you so far”
- “put your head down, work diligently, have a plan, always keep looking up”
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