Philosophy

I have 2 basic philosophies. 1 personally and 1 as it relates to business. Additionally, I have multitude of sayings that I am sure the people around me are tired of hearing.

Part I: Personal Philosophy
"You get more out of life with a smile……and a gun, than just a smile alone".

The smile element is to make sure you enjoy your work, the people you work with and the people you deal with.  If they are not honest, interested in you as much as you are in them and not pleasant to work with; your days will not be happy ones.

The gun is the gun of knowledge.  Everyone knows something I don’t know. My goal is to add those bullets of information to my arsenal so that I can build the biggest and best cannon in town.

Part II: Business Philosophy
My business philosophy comes in 2 parts:

Part 1. Business Theory
It is called, “The John Doe” theory.

When we started the MediaNet/BSP Rewards business, one of our initial (small) investors was a publicly held company that had a $62 Billion market cap. Today they are lying on a cold table in what I call the “Dot Com Morgue” with a John Doe tag on their toe because no one remembers them.

Over the past years we have had similar experiences with companies that were proud of the $25 or $50 million dollars they raised and their hundreds of employees sitting in $1200 chairs….and too “important” to deal with us.

Well, most of those companies also are lying in the Dot Com Morgue with John Doe tags on their toes and they all died of the same malady, which is why the toe tag reads “DOE”. The illness was Debt, Overhead and Ego and it killed each one of them.

So my theory is (which we adhere to) be debt free, maintain a low overhead and check your personal and corporate ego at the door ….and sit on $99 chairs.

Part 2.
(See Personal Philosophy above which I also relate to business.)