Adiel Gorel is the CEO of ICG, a prominent real estate investment firm located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 1983 he has successfully been assisting thousands of investors with purchasing U.S. properties. Through ICG he has personally invested in hundreds of properties for his own portfolio and was involved in the purchase of over 5,500 properties for ICG’s investors in Phoenix, Las Vegas,Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Oklahoma City, Salt Lake City, to name just a few. Adiel holds a master’s degree from Stanford University. His professional experience includes Management and Director Positions in firms including Hewlett- Packard, Excel Telecommunications, and biotechnology firms.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Warren Buffett
- William Nickerson
- Elon Musk
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I had this notion in my head well how can I start a business and be an entrepreneur without business education, I don’t have any business education, I’m not fit, I’m not educated enough, I need to learn. That is turning out to be a false notion. And I think that is a big message for everyone and that is it’s not true that you have to be so ready before you start, you just have to start. I’m not saying you don’t know the basics you don’t hire the lawyer or the CPA or the secretary. But some people almost use it as an excuse never to really get started on their dreams. They have the dream but it never get started because”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- How I Turned $1,000 into a Million in Real Estate in My Spare Time Book by William Nickerson
- The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment Book by Eckhart Tolle
Favourite Quote:
- “Ever is happening now that you don’t like probability is that in one year from now you are going to be laughing already. Why don’t you start laughing right now?”
- “When the going gets tough the tough get going”
- “just do it”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Zillow: Real Estate, Apartments, Mortgages & Home Values. The leading real estate marketplace Search millions of for sale and rental listings, compare Zestimate® home values and connect with local professionals
- Trulia: Real Estate Listings, Homes For Sale, Housing Data. Your destination for all real estate listings and rental properties Trulia com provides comprehensive school and neighborhood information on homes for sale in your market
- Census – The Census Bureau is dedicated to providing current facts and figures about America’s people, places, and economy.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“move forward, just do it. You have an idea; you can act on it. And it doesn’t mean you have to jump into the pool, you can put your toe in. But do act on those ideas. If you do that and it doesn’t work that’s okay at least later on in life you don’t have regrets that you never tried. So try, go for it, don’t risk everything but do go for it”…[Listen for More]
More About Adiel Gorel:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” Mary Kay Ash
Other Quotes From the Chat with Adiel Gorel:
- “one of the things that is critical is when you are starting you usually do it on a shoestring and you don’t want to spend money on stuff that seems unnecessary. My strong recommendation is when you are starting a business hire an accountant, hire a lawyer. Even though it seems like what I’m going to spend my scarce money on those people… That would have saved me a lot of grief and a lot of time. And in fact, not having an accountant for the first year or two and then hiring a cheap accountant cost me many millions of dollars later on at a time when it been planned well on the accounting level, I wouldn’t have lost those millions”
- “just do it. That is an important message because a lot of people never ever get started because I’m not quite ready, I’m not quite ready, I’m not quite ready, I’m too young, I’m too old, I’m not quite there. So, doing it is probably the biggest secret of all. Go there and do it. Even if you fail you have learned a lot and maybe you got the taste for it and it will be much easier for you to do it the next time. So, doing it is one of the best secrets of success”
- “we probably spend most of our time regretting mistakes that we’ve done”
- “we are now, right here, and I think there’s a lot of power in that”
- “believe that you deserve it. Because a lot of people even when it starts going well in the back of their mind there is this no not me, not me because I’m not good enough, I know I’m not good enough, they don’t know what a fraud I really am, I am not worthy of this whole thing. So you are, you really are. So, belief and not being afraid of success is just as important as not being afraid of failure”
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