Armand Peri is an American executive, entrepreneur, real estate investor, artist and former NPC and IFBB bodybuilding champion. He is the CEO of New Age Productions, Inc., a New Jersey/New York-based nightclub production and entertainment company. He is also the founder of Hunk-O-Mania Entertainment, a live choreographed male revue show for women, which operates in one of the largest nightclubs in New York City. Hunk-O-Mania nightclubs continue to receive acclaim as the largest and most successful male revue nightclubs in the world from various news and media outlets. Armand founded the first Hunk-O-Mania nightclub show in 1998 in New York City and the show has now expanded to over 18 cities including Chicago, Las Vegas, Houston, Miami, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlantic City, Orlando, Tampa, Philadelphia, San Francisco, San Diego, Atlanta and New Orleans.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I got into a business that was socially questionable. I guess questionable may not be the proper word but it was a business that didn’t exist when I first started it. And to this day a lot of people don’t understand what I do. So there is still a myth around it, people think one way or another. And ultimately I had to really constantly prove myself because it’s not your typical business… Even when I was applying for liability insurance the assessor didn’t really understand because there aren’t a lot of businesses like mine”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed Book by Brian TracyFavourite Quote:
“never quit on your dreams and yourself”
Recommended Online Resources:
- 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.
- YouTube, LLC is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“find something that you know well, that you are good at and that you are passionate about. Don’t go in to a business you don’t know anything about. And I think that’s the problem with a lot of people that they choose something that somebody else is telling them is a good business rather than just really choosing something that they know a lot about. So, it doesn’t matter what it is, whether you work construction today. Whatever you are doing today if you like what you do get into a business that does what you do but find a way to do it better”…[Listen for More]
More About Armand Peri:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.” Step finds a hen Hawking, The Theory of Everything
Other Quotes From the Chat with Armand Peri:
- “to be successful you have to find something that you are passionate about. Because even if you don’t have the skills if you have the passion you can learn the skills. You don’t have to be the most talented person you do have to be hard-working person”
- “I think organisation and organisation skills are key to building an enterprise and building a huge organisation. Without having organisational skills you are going to be limited.”
- “You have to really be proud of who you are, how you operate and what you offer and just stay true to the core of who you are”
- “stay true to who you are and what you offer and do what you do best way you can and always try to improve”
- “I believe you have always got to be the hardest working person in the room”
- “you can never quit no matter what you always have to persevere”
- “over the years I stay persistent with my dreams and my goals no matter how hard it was”
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