King’s Seafood Company Founder and CEO Sam King leads Southern California’s seafood industry through an impressive portfolio of over 20 restaurants in addition to a direct dock-to-dish distribution center supporting small fisheries and sustainability efforts.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Sam’s Dad
- Elon Musk
- Steve Jobs
When business started difficulties overcame:
“when a family member comes into the business you have to prove yourself… A new people always enjoyed being around me but I knew that I had to my stripes, that I had to be worthy of the respect and accountability that I desired. So I just started out by working very hard. I was lucky that I was aware of that at an early age and I knew that people respond to me because I was the boss’s son but it was really important for me that I was known as an effective leader and an effective contributor to our business ”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market Book by Michael Treacy and Fred WiersemaFavourite Quote:
“a good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit”
Recommended Online Resources:
- RealClearPolitics – Live Opinion, News, Analysis, Video and Polls
- The Daily Beast – A smart, speedy take on the news from around the world
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“be prepared to work hard, be prepared to get knocked down, be prepared to get back up, and be prepared to be worthy of your followership. Be prepared people aren’t going to just do things because you told them so… Anybody who is going to start their own business”…[Listen for More]
More About Sam King:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.” Aristotle Onassis
Other Quotes From the Chat with Sam King:
- “with social media and with technology, technology is not going to be able to do everything for you”
- “fundamentally working hard is one of the most important rules of life”
- “treating people fairly and treated people how you want to be treated is another one of those main foundational fundamental principles that you should live by”
- “I always want to work towards keeping that small company feel”
- “I definitely want people to follow me, followership is one of the most gratifying aspects ever in my life is the people that actually want to follow. But I don’t want to take all the credit my desire is that individuals who work hard in our company feel that they receive some of the credit for the success that we have”
- “we have a term in our company called ‘discretionary effort’ and the roles of the leaders in our company is to get as much discretionary effort out of somebody as possible. We mean discretionary effort as people want to do something for you where it is not just because they are told, it’s not because it’s compliance but it is through the door of wanting to do. Anybody who’s going to start their own business, that that’s got to be a foundational aspect to their business is to be worthy of peoples followership”
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