Joe Valley has built, bought and sold over a 1/2 dozen of his own companies, and sold nearly 1/2 billion in online businesses through his firm Quiet Light Brokerage. He is the bestselling author of The EXITPreneur’s Playbook – a book designed to help you achieve your own incredible exit.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Stan McCurdy
- Uncle Walter
When business started difficulties overcame:
“The biggest one was debt… In order to jump ship from company that I was working for in 1997 I had to save a whole bunch of money which was hard because I had a whole bunch of debt. And so the biggest difficulty for me was simply making sure that I could cover my own personal expenses when I went out on my own. In order to do that I had to go back to Stanley in my mind and listen to him which is to say hustle, put in the time, work harder”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results Book by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
- Click the following link to listen to the Jay Papasan podcast episode on The Entrepreneur Way
Favourite Quote:
“Don’t be a Jacky”
Recommended Online Resources:
YouTube, LLC is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Keep your overhead low and don’t be afraid of making mistakes”…[Listen for More]
More About Joe Valley:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest.” Walter Anderson
Other Quotes From the Chat with Joe Valley:
- “don’t focus on building a business just for me. Think about building a great business for a great buyer to take over some day, and that could be your child or your family or something down the road if it’s going to be in the family. But build a great business for a great buyer to take over at a great value for both parties. And at the end of the day me as a business owner I am going to do well, I am going to win, it’s going to be a success for me both financially, emotionally, all of those different things. It’s going to be a success and I am going to feel good at the end of the day. I wish I had known that when I started”
- “Thrive, it’s passion, focus, accepting failure, not over planning for me…. It’s just pushing forward and driving your goals in the direction that you want them to go in. And trying to eliminate some of the distractions whether you’re an entrepreneur or an athlete training for hurdles to get to the Olympics. You’ve got to focus, you got to learn what you don’t know, accept help from experts that no more than you do and make sacrifices”
- “Open up your mind to the fact that other people might have expertise that you don’t and learn from them, work things out, talk through things, pay attention to detail, be a grown-up, don’t take any shortcuts and definitely don’t be a Jacky”
- “I grew up learning from doing, I didn’t really learn from books”
- “Don’t make the mistake of saying I’ve got this”
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