John Stoj is likely the only Advisor you’ve ever met who has managed both $3.5 billion and a sushi kitchen. John’s career in finance began on a Wall Street trading floor over twenty-five years ago, and this has uniquely prepared him to see financial services for what it is: flush with companies and professionals far more focused on their own best interests than their customers’.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
John’s Grandparents
When business started difficulties overcame:
“how do you intend to get clients . Whether you consider them long-term clients, one-time customers it doesn’t matter. Somehow you have to have them pick up the phone , click on an email, walk through the door, it doesn’t matter. And for me that’s definitely the most difficult thing. I spent the first 20 years of my career either inside of a large organisation who just expected me to do it certain job or within an organisation within a role that people wanted or was in demand, so I received the phone calls… When you go out on your own and you put up your own shingle you have got to convince people to do it and that not only are you good at what you do but there is even a point in talking with you in the first place”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns Book by John C. Bogle
- John C. Bogle Books
- Underworld by Don DeLillo
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Favourite Quote:
“Hylas said the great time passes great world remains, yours is a small time and a small world. The small world can be ordered, the Small-time controlled. Control time first by breathing regularly, second by meditation on the outer, third by meditation on the inner, fourth by recent memory near expectation, fifth by distant memory and remote expectation, six by return to the present, seventh by holding on. Order the world first by sitting Quietly, second by standing and turning about, third by clearing and cleaning approximate space, fourth by collecting in the middle all that is to be done, fifth by moving each thing to The right or to the left, six by doing one thing in the middle until it is done in seven by keeping on”
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“constantly talk to other entrepreneurs. And not just successful entrepreneurs because you can learn fantastic things from the successful entrepreneurs but also other people. Talk to entrepreneurs who might have in their mind failed and see what you can learn from them. And lots of times that is a lot more valuable than talking to the guys that have started and sold 30 businesses and all that”…[Listen for More]
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Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Focus on being productive instead of being busy.” Tim Ferriss
Other Quotes From the Chat with John Stoj:
- “very few of us are able to take snippets of advice and then say immediately that’s right I won’t do it the way that my intuition tells me to do it I’m going to do it the way this guy or this book is telling me to do it”
- “to me the secret to success is knowing yourself, knowing when you are going to be satisfied, when you are not going to be satisfied and also knowing what the people around you need because financial success can be fleeting and it can be enjoyable but if you are not listening to the people around you and that includes your family and friends you can find yourself alone with your box of money pretty quickly. And that’s not really success.”
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