Peter Ticktin is the Senior Partner at the South Florida-based firm, The Ticktin Law Group. Peter is on the cutting edge of law, he appeared in Court TV, Inside Edition and many others for his perspective. For this work, the Daily Business Review in South Florida honored Peter with an award of being a “Distinguished Leader” in his profession.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Dick von Drac founder of Labor Finders
- Spero Georgedakis founder of Good Greek Moving & Storage
When business started difficulties overcame:
“the one thing you need to find capital. The largest reason for failures of businesses is being under capitalised. And so, finding the capital to be able to make ends meet can be a little bit daunting especially when you are coming out of the business that did not succeed as a mentioned with the Pony Express. So that was a bit of an issue but not one that we couldn’t overcome and we found what we needed without giving away the percentage of the business”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- E Myth Books by Michael E. Gerber
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It Book by Michael E. Gerber
- Think And Grow Rich Book by Napoleon Hill
Favourite Quote:
- “The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else” George Bernard Shaw
- “when a man says he can’t he is almost always right”
Recommended Online Resources:
- LexisNexis Legal & Professional – LexisNexis provides customers with access to billions of searchable documents and records from more than 60,000 legal, news and business sources
- 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.
- Wikipedia is a free online encyclopaedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation
- Vistage is where leaders learn and grow. They help CEOs and business owners grow their business through executive coaching and peer advisory groups
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“you have got to know where you are going in order to get there… Goals are everything. If you don’t have your goals well established you are not going anywhere. And they have to be real goals and they have to be written down. Business plan is important because the business plan is your way of documenting and making solid those goals. So, my advice is to stop dreaming, stop changing your dreams”…[Listen for More]
More About Peter Ticktin:
- The Ticktin Law Group
- What Makes Trump Tick: My Years with Donald Trump from New York Military Academy to the Present Book by Peter Ticktin
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing the monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” C.S. Lewis
Other Quotes From the Chat with Peter Ticktin:
- “it’s better to succeed big then take an unfair advantage over one person and stay small”
- “I do learn from others and it’s very helpful to me to have some of these role models”
- “there is an advantage to getting more and more and more experience and it takes you to levels that are hard to imagine at a younger age. It’s hard to explain how it puts you in that position. You become a little bit more of an authority and you can speak with a little bit more of an authoritative aspect in your manner. But it’s not that so much is just understanding things differently”
- “the most important secret to success is determined your goals, your big hairy audacious goals (BHAG). That’s the first thing that you need to do for any kind of success. Unless you’ve got your goals in mind you are not going to succeed no matter what you do”
- “it takes a certain element of guts”
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