Emmy award-winner and best-selling author David McCourt is one of the world’s most successful, award-winning business people. Over the past thirty years he has founded or bought over twenty companies in nine countries, becoming a leader in the technology, media and telecommunications industries. The Economist describes him as possessing “incredible credentials as a telecom revolutionary”.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“the same difficulty Neil that everyone has to overcome. Cash, getting paid… When you are the little guy when you are first starting out everyone picks on you, no one wants to pay you, they don’t need you so they don’t need to pay you one time. So chasing the cash, that’s the biggest problem every entrepreneur has at the beginning”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography Book by Walter Isaacson
- Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude Book by Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone
Favourite Quote:
” No matter how bad you think you have it recognise that someone else has it worse and move forward, always forward” Catherine McCourt, David’s mother
Recommended Online Resources:
- Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 exclusively on iOS.
- LinkedIn – is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Founded on December 28, 2002, and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“always forward just like my mother said, always forward”…[Listen for More]
More About David McCourt:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” Napoleon Hill
Other Quotes From the Chat with David McCourt:
- “I try to differentiate between trends and fads. If you are following a fad you can follow within the construct of that part a stupid idea. If you are following a trend and follow a stupid idea you should just chalk it up to R&D. Because if you in the construct of a trend and it’s a stupid idea it’s just temporarily stupid and it’s just one way not to attack the problem. So, you just use that, learn from it, then your plant B better than your plan A”
- “critically important Neil. I call it the DNA of the business. You have got to set the DNA of your business. Let me tell you why. Early on if you don’t set the DNA of your business then people hire and train people that look and sound like them… People like to live in a net Coach chamber. So, you hire someone who is not a good listener or not a team player are not into inclusion or collaboration or empowerment they won’t recognise those weaknesses in other people because they don’t even recognise it in themselves. So, they will end up hiring more people with those same shortcomings. And then you have got two. And each one of them are hiring two more, then you have got four, and it multiplies, then you have got eight, sixteen, thirty-two, sixty-four. They multiply like rabbits. So, you have got to get the culture right from the get go, have to, no doubt about it”
- “you don’t want to make the same mistakes twice. You are allowed to make those mistakes once…. You are allowed to make every mistake once; you just aren’t allowed to make the same mistakes twice”
- “I would have been more fanatical about focus, more fanatical about saying no, more fanatical about staying the course. More fanatical and not spreading myself too thin”
- “always following the three big rules of inclusion, collaboration and empowerment”
- “making sure that you are empowering people to help you along the way”
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