Jack Gibson & Jeff Schechter co-founded a company called High Return Real Estate which specializes in turn-key investments. In addition they both have thriving multi-million dollar businesses. Jack operates a nutrition consulting and distribution company and Jeff a private consulting practice helping people realize their full potential in all aspects of life.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
- “My own personal self worth. As I grew up it was very clear to me that I was never going to live up to the expectations of my parents, it’s not that they didn’t love me, it’s not that I didn’t come from a good home. I just struggled for a very long time with my own self image and my own self worth”
- “It just never goes the way you think it will go and you have to be ready for that”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Think and Grow Rich Book by Napoleon Hill
- The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth behind Extraordinary Results Book by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
Favourite Quote:
- “For things to change you have to change and for things to get better you have to get better”
- “You miss 100% of the shots that you don’t take”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Selfmade Man – For Men With Ambition – Where You Get The Knowledge You Need to Become A Successful Entrepreneur…
- Diamandis – Peter H. Diamandis is a Greek American engineer, physician, and entrepreneur best known for being founder and chairman of the X Prize Foundation
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
- “Don’t give up, we have some challenges that we did not expect, there was just no way to foresee it and. There’s going to be times when it really freaking sucks, that’s just the way it is so you have to either throw up your hands and go okay I just can’t take this anymore and then you have no chance of success, if you are able to tough it out, find a way”
- “If it’s easy for you then you’re not being developed, it’s just like a muscle, I go to the gym, it’s got to be hard or I’m not going to grow any muscles so I just don’t see any way around it, you’ve got to go through the mock to develop your character”…[Listen for More]
More About Jack Gibson & Jeff Schechter:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“That’s where I began to ask questions that maybe don’t have one specific answer. And the more people you get answers from, the richer the environment becomes” John Zorn
Other Quotes From the Chat with Jack Gibson & Jeff Schechter:
- “Embrace the pain”
- “It’s very important to keep your word to other human beings, when your integrity breaks down then everything else will break down in your entire life”
- “Find the thing that you can do the best and just do that”
- “Stop trying to be all things to all people”
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