Dave Kauffman is an Entrepreneur, Business Owner, Business Coach, Speaker, Talk Show Host and has the most beautiful woman as a wife! Dave has helped hundreds of business owners find freedom in their companies. He has been hand picked by the Ziglar family to carry on for the late great Zig Ziglar.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
David’s Father
Zig Ziglar
Howard Partridge
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber
When business started difficulties overcame:
…”I decided very early that I was not going to be a business owner. And so that was a really hard thing for me to get over was my mindset of a business owner is like well if I want to be a business owner I am going to have to be a slave to my business until I make it big. And then I just asked myself a question. Is that true? Is there a different way? My training from my father always question things, think outside of the box and ask what if, really started happening so I started my own company”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber Zig Ziglar Books See You At The Top by Zig Ziglar Lead . . . for God’s Sake!: A Parable for Finding the Heart of Leadership by Todd Gongwer John C. Maxwell BooksFavourite Quote:
“You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar
Recommended Online Resources:
Google
Darren Hardy – Great for inspiration and that daily shot in the arm.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Get a dream, set goals, and get a coach”…[Listen for More]
More About David Kauffman:
Empowering Small Business http://empoweringsmallbiz.com/
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.” Lawrence M. Krauss
Other Quotes From the Chat with David Kauffman:
- EDGE – Exceptional Discipline Generates Excellence
- “Helping and serving others”
- “Success is buying the car, success is reaching your goal. Significance is taking people with you to their dreams”
- “There is a difference between management and leadership. Management does things right, leadership does the right thing”
- “God didn’t create Human Doings he created Human Beings”
- “Find out what the need is and solve that need or problem”
- “Your business exists for one reason and one reason only and that is to serve as a vehicle to take you to your life goals”
- “A system is nothing less than a lighted pathway to a desired outcome with high fences that keep people from doing stupid things”
- “We say we climb the ladder of success. Well the ladder is not success it is vehicle to it. You climb the ladder to success. And where do start if you climb a ladder you start at the bottom rung and you put one foot in front of the other and you keep climbing and you learn the lessons along the way”
- “Success to me is having a balance between your personal life, your spiritual life, you physical life, your business, your finances, your relationships.”
- “A dream without goals is like an airplane without wings”
- “If we want our business to change we have to change as an individual”
“I in fact don’t fail, I just learn something new every day. And what I mean by that is there is a big difference between failing successful, or successfully failing - “God didn’t create Human Doings he created Human Beings. When we figure out how to be, then we can do, then we can have. So many times we want to do, so we can be, so we can have. And it gets all lopsided. And so the correct order is Be, Do, Have. Any other formation of those three words is backwards. It needs to be Be, Do, Have ”
- “We get up and we go out to war. We go out and battle. We go out and conquer in business. That’s what we are we are warriors. And we get beat up. And so it is so important to put the good inside of you before you go out. It is so important to put the oxygen mask on yourself before you can help other people ”
- “I help small business owners find freedom in their company so they can spend more time with their family and friends and less time putting out fire”
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