David Meltzer, CEO of Sports 1 Marketing, is Variety Magazine’s Sports Humanitarian of the Year, a Forbes Top 10 Keynote to Hire, a Top 100 Business Coach, 2x best-selling author, host of Entrepreneur’s #1 podcast The Playbook, and star of #1 digital show, Elevator Pitch.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“it was ego. Mine had to do with humility. The obstacle that I had was I was completely in my way, I thought I was in complete control, I was a manipulator, my objectives and my ends were my main goals so I oversold people, I backend so people, I even lied to people in order to get what I wanted and taking those shortcuts only attracted more of what I didn’t want. It was so funny in my life how aggravated and offended and resentful I would be towards others that manipulated me, that oversold me, that backend sold me, that lied to me. While meanwhile I started to learn that what I didn’t like in others was truly within myself and what I find in others is what I find myself. So early on if I just could have learned radical humility”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Think and Grow Rich Book by Napoleon Hill
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t Book by James C. Collins
Favourite Quote:
“be kind to your future self” Lee Steinberg
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“be kind to your future self and do good deeds. If You just do that… The other piece of advice would simply be ask to questions every day: How could I be of service? As well as: Do you know anyone who can help me?”…[Listen for More]
More About David Meltzer:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.” Seth Godin
Other Quotes From the Chat with David Meltzer:
- “I did not understand the importance of money. So, what slowed my journey was understanding the key rule of being an entrepreneur which is staying in business”
- “develop habits, really focusing in on what skills and knowledge you are going to need for what you want to do, the what of what you want to do”
- “we are going to forget at times all lessons that we have learned. And the greatest thing is is that although we will forget all the lessons that we learned at certain times we always have the capability of remembering those lessons any time. So we can understand and learn those lessons at any time but we have to have the awareness that we are going to forget all the lessons that we learned.”
- “Most young entrepreneurs, most new entrepreneurs, most old entrepreneurs are missing the most critical factor in being successful and accelerating what you do that is to find people in the situation or attain situational knowledge in relationship capital, experience and the dummy… and simply ask for help”
- “ask the help, and we do that by building relationship capital, finding people that sit in the situation that we want to be in, the books, the podcast, the interesting things that we can learn, look for mentorships in all forms, shapes and sizes but let’s learn.”
- “Understand that life is only a series of lessons, there are no mistakes. You are going to keep on getting the lessons until you learn”
- “if you want to know one question to make you successful its do you know anybody who can help me and the more people that you can ask in person, on the phone, via email and media, radio, print and TV, and social media, it doesn’t matter. If you are not asking every day at least one person, do you know anybody that can help me”
- “happiness is the pursuit and that is the key to success”
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