Bill Wooditch is the author of “Fail More, Embrace, Learn, and Adapt to Failure As a Way to Success” and the founder and CEO of Wooditch Enterprises (a subsidiary of The Wooditch Group, a risk-management and corporate insurance firm with annual sales of $100 million). He works with Fortune 500 companies like AIG, Old Republic, Zurich, and Bank of America to improve their sales and leadership. Bill’s keynotes include the National Sales Conference for MetaBank and the National Annual Meeting for Boy Scouts of America. He appeared regularly on Steve Harvey’s “Act like a Success” show and has also appeared on CNBC, Fox, and CBS. He has written for Inc., New York Daily News, and the American Management Association.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“constraint of ideas. I think one of the things though is you are constrained by money and cash and you may not have enough capital to do certain things. I would say my Alexander the Great conquer the world dreams and aspirations had to fit my pocket at first. So I had to learn patience Neil, it’s not one of my better turns, it’s not one of my better qualities. So I had to learn not to overreach, I had to learn patience I had to learn to mar and collect allies, advocates who would help me and I had to take my ego and put it in my pocket and know that if people were going to work with me, not for me, with me to pull our value proposition forward I was going to have to take a seat next to them not in front of them and actually lead from behind or be next to them. And we were able to do that when I transition from it egocentric sales person to a leader who understood that I create the environment free of fear, teach them to succeed by allowing them to fail and we were able to move forward five years”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Meditations Book by Marcus Aurelius
- The Grit (The only thing you need to make millions) Book by Matt Manero
- You Need More Money: Wake Up and Solve Your Financial Problems Once And For All Book by Matt Manero
Favourite Quote:
“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” Winston Churchill
Recommended Online Resources:
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“believe in yourself, never ever waver in yourself. Grow your confidence, people will perceive and feel your confidence before they ever wait around to learn of your competence. Confidence confidence confidence. And it comes from being prepared and knowing yourself ”…[Listen for More]
More About Bill Wooditch:
- Wooditch Enterprises
- The Wooditch Company
- Bill Wooditch
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” Sydney Harris, American journalist
Other Quotes From the Chat with Bill Wooditch:
- “Bill opportunity is like a window and its closing. You’ve got to see, seize, and create your opportunity.”
- “you can’t escape the man in the mirror”
- “your word is your bond. That person in the mirror, that reflection of you is to be true to yourself and to be true to other people”
- “activity rules success”
- “if I didn’t get a certain outcome or a certain result it was okay there would be tomorrow”
- “to speculate about the future is something I can only project from the lens of my experience. When I project for the future there are things that are unknown that I have to be willing to maybe embrace at the time or at least understand or at the very least say well that’s very different.”
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