Dr. Brian P Simon, a West Virginia native turned Hampton Roads, Virginia resident, is an entrepreneur who credits his accomplishments to being surrounded by like-minded, driven people. Dr. Simon’s companies, Fit Realty, Custom Homes of Virginia, and Simon Studios, have accumulated an abundance of success in their relatively short lifetime. The Brian Simon real estate team, with their growing boutique brokerage Fit Realty and their growing real estate and home builder Sales and Marketing System, has sold over one billion dollars in real estate in the last twelve years. Dr. Simon’s home building and home renovating company, Custom Homes of Virginia, has built or renovated and re-sold over 200 homes in the last 10 years. Besides being an expert for the many businesses he owns, Dr. Simon possesses many other strengths. He has greater than 17 years’ experience in internet marketing strategies.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Brian’s Dad
- Larry Abraham
When business started difficulties overcame:
“for me it was the mental shift that I had just finished my masters degree, my doctor’s degree and I was diving into an industry that I only needed like a high school diploma. So it was my walking away from what I had been working for all these years in school”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Napoleon Hill in His Own Voice: Rare Recordings of His Lectures Napoleon Hill
- Think and Grow Rich Book by Napoleon Hill
Favourite Quote:
“Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be broken”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Facebook Groups – A Facebook Group is a place for group communication and for people to share their common interests and express their opinion.
- Instagram – A simple, fun creative way to capture, edit share photos, videos messages with friends family
- 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.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“balancing your dreams with reality. It’s important that you start with a dream and that you dream truly with no unfettered, unhindered dreams. But then when it’s time to take the dream and turn it into a goal and then to turn your goal into a smart goal it’s so important that you balance the dream with the reality of where are you now, where are your financial resources, where are your time allocations and make decisions with a little bit of a methodical approach so that you do the timing correctly. Because the right thing at the wrong time a lot of times will hinder the immediate success of that project. There will be times of chaos because walking into entrepreneurship and walking the journey many times is chaos but you don’t want to freezing fear when the crazy happens you want to press forward and do it afraid and not let the chaos because you to freeze. That’s so huge and it’s just one foot in front of the other. Once you feel like the goals are worthwhile goal then one foot in front of the other and keep pressing and small steps lead to big accomplishments”…[Listen for More]
More About Brian P Simon:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“I talk a lot about taking risks, and then I follow that up very quickly by saying, ‘Take prudent risks.” Irene Rosenfeld
Other Quotes From the Chat with Brian P Simon:
- “my dad was making very wise choices; he was choosing to say no to something so he could say yes to other things and maintain a balanced life”
- “experience is going to be many entrepreneur’s primary teacher”
- “the buck stops with you and you have to accept it”
- “I have to own every decision. Financially it will impact me even it’s my staff who make it I allow them to make it”
- “it’s the commitment to the cause that you have set out to go after. The raw commitment and then throwing yourself wholly into it”
- “we are so committed to the cause that it is one foot in front of the other, even when you don’t feel like doing it, even when there are things that you didn’t expect come up you just keep going”
- “over the years I have become so much more flexible and just able to understand that the market changes, everything changes”
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