Life In A Question Mark Suit
Lesko’s Success Philosophy
 I’m not the richest person in the world. I’m not the most important person in the world. And certainly not the most famous person in the world. But for a kid who grew up in Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania, who flunked out of High School, flunked English in college, barely got thru my undergraduate school, and had two failing businesses, I’m doing more than I ever thought I would do in life. And certainly more than anyone ever told me I would do.
I’ve started two successful companies worth millions and millions of dollars. I’ve written over 100 books, two of which became New York Times Best Sellers, and two won awards from the American Library Association for Best Reference Book of they Year. I’ve written syndicated columns for Goodhouskeeping Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, and New York Times Syndicate, and appeared in thousands of other magazines and newspapers. I’ve been a regular guest on hundreds of national and local talk shows including Larry King, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Oprah, Leno, and Letterman. I’m having a wonderful time in life and it keeps getting better and better. I can’t wait to get up every morning and tackle the challenges that are important to me. I feel very fortunate to be alive and to be able to do what I am doing. I have learned so much over the years and I intend to keep on learning and growing no matter what age I am. Every 10 years I just find different parts to grow.
Learning and understanding “how to do things” is more important to me than “just doing things.” Over the years I have developed my own philosophies on how to get through this world we live in. Whether you are successful or not, we all are struggling. No one seems to have the true answer. It seems that the true answer is different for each one of us. We each walk around in a world that is unique to us and no one other person can understand completely. We don’t even completely understand ourselves, so how is anyone else going to completely understand?
What we get from others who share their struggles and successes, is a peek at new tools and a new understanding for dealing with our own struggles and reaching our own success.
I hope this helps..
Matthew Lesko
Make Sure You DON’T Know What You’re DoingThat’s what I keep telling my staff. Because in today’s world if you really believe that you know what you are doing you are going to wind up being out of business. It means you are playing it too safe. What ever worked in the past is not likely to work in the future. You have to continue to keep trying new things. And I mean things that you have no idea will work or not. The world constantly changes and if you don’t keep changing with it, you will be out of business or out of a job. Nobody really knows what they’re doing in life. We are all guessing, even the experts. And the sooner we admit that the better off we will be. So go out there and make sure your DON’T know what you’re doing. This isn’t brain surgery it’s just life.
USA Millionaires Are Entrepreneurs And Ordinary People
Millionaires in this country are not those people we see on TV driving expensive cars and living in big fancy expensive homes, according to the book “The Millionaire Next Door” by two PhD’s Stanley and Deanko. Their data show that only about 3.5% of the country have $1 million or more in assets to fit this category and these people have the following characteristics:
- 80% made the money themselves and did not inherit it,
- 2/3rds of those working are self-employed,
- they’ve worked in same business for over 20 years and it is likely to be a dull business like pest controller or paving contractor (all those instant dotcom millionaires are now broke),
- they wear inexpensive suits and drive late-model American cars, and
- they are more likely to have a Sears or J.C. Penny credit card than a Saks or Nieman Marcus card.
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