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Speaker 1: Who is Mark Weber. He's a self made business executive
Speaker 1: here to help you find your success from the New
Speaker 1: York City projects to the Avenue Montaigne in Paris. His
Speaker 1: global success story in the luxury world of fashion is inspirational.
Speaker 1: He's gone from clerk to CEO twice. Mark is classic
Speaker 1: proof that the American dream is alive. And well, here's
Speaker 1: your host of Always in Fashion, Mark Weber.
Speaker 2: Mark Weber, this is Thanksgiving week. I thought about doing
Speaker 2: a traditional Thanksgiving show, but I'm not a traditional guy,
Speaker 2: and I thought I'd mix it up a bit. After all,
Speaker 2: Always in Fashion is an original content show. We're not politics,
Speaker 2: We're not news and weather, we're not sports. We don't guess.
Speaker 2: It's always business. That's what the theme of the show
Speaker 2: is when you really come down to it. But after
Speaker 2: all is said and done, were evaluated by Spotify Apple.
Speaker 2: iHeartMedia is cultural and social or cultural and lifestyle, and
Speaker 2: I often think about where the next idea would come from.
Speaker 2: It could have been Thanksgiving and a little touch on
Speaker 2: that a bit. But if anyone should ever ask where
Speaker 2: do I come up with the ideas for the show,
Speaker 2: the answer is anywhere. The other day I happen to
Speaker 2: catch one of my favorite movies, The Firm, with Tom Cruise.
Speaker 2: Tom Cruise plays a lawyer, Mitch mcdeer. He gets his
Speaker 2: first job working for a company, but he finds that
Speaker 2: the firm's largest client is the mob. And once that happened,
Speaker 2: he's approached by the FBI, who inform him that he's
Speaker 2: working with the mob and if he doesn't help them
Speaker 2: capture the people that are involved in this scheme or
Speaker 2: in other words, work as a rat or in other words,
Speaker 2: work as an informant, he's going to lose license, go
Speaker 2: to jail. Who knows what spoiler alert. Great movie. He
Speaker 2: protects his client, the Morola family, he brings the firm
Speaker 2: to justice, and there's a happy ending all around. The
Speaker 2: key for me, there is there's a scene, as there
Speaker 2: often is in movies, that really capture my attention, and
Speaker 2: this is in the movie. At one point when Tom
Speaker 2: Cruise recognizes the way to bring down the firm is
Speaker 2: with the law. He's discovering that there's mail fraud and
Speaker 2: mail fraud because the clients are building, because the clients
Speaker 2: are being built incorrectly through the mail. It becomes a
Speaker 2: federal case and each of the members of the firm,
Speaker 2: they're subject to rico indictments. And in spite of the
Speaker 2: FBI all over him trying to catch through the mob,
Speaker 2: in spite of all the threats and everything, he's going down.
Speaker 2: He uses the slow in its simplest element, mail fraud
Speaker 2: because these bills were mailed. It sounds simple. But there's
Speaker 2: my favorite scene is when at one point he answer
Speaker 2: this over the FBI ah and hent Torrance, who's crazy
Speaker 2: and pissed off. This is what you give me, mail
Speaker 2: fraud And he doesn't realize the extent of what the
Speaker 2: problem would be and how we've been able to arrest
Speaker 2: everyone and close down the firm. He asked Tom Cruise,
Speaker 2: how did you come up with mail fraud? And Tom
Speaker 2: Cruise advises him, you forced me to think about the
Speaker 2: law again, and this was on the bar exam. You
Speaker 2: made me think about the law. Seeing that scene and
Speaker 2: thinking about the movie, I asked myself, how do I
Speaker 2: come up with ideas for the show. How do I
Speaker 2: decide to be on the radio? And I tell you
Speaker 2: over and over. After a course of many years listening
Speaker 2: to talk radio, I realized that I have a lot
Speaker 2: of things to say in writing my book. I should
Speaker 2: point out that recently one of our listeners, a friend
Speaker 2: of mine named Michael, who wrote me to ask me
Speaker 2: to send a copy to him. He said he had
Speaker 2: a copy. He always reads it, he always looks at
Speaker 2: it for ideas and lessons, and he asked me to autograph.
Speaker 2: I told him i'd send him a new copy, but
Speaker 2: he insisted that he send me the one that he's
Speaker 2: had from day one, which he bought and he would
Speaker 2: really appreciate I would signing and return it to him.
Speaker 2: So he did. He sent me an envelope. Hessyst that
Speaker 2: I did, and I did. When I thought about the
Speaker 2: book and I took a look at it, I looked
Speaker 2: at the back page where it indicated there were three
Speaker 2: major players and gave comments on the book. One of
Speaker 2: them referred to the book Gilbert Harrison, friend of mine,
Speaker 2: investment banker. And there is in the book a chapter
Speaker 2: call Just in case you weren't paying attention, Gilbert Harrison's
Speaker 2: exact quote about the book was a fascinating tale, with
Speaker 2: the most intriguing chapter featuring Weber's forty three lessons for success.
Speaker 2: Anyone who's considering becoming a success should read those chapters.
Speaker 2: So I opened the book that wasn't my bar exam,
Speaker 2: but was the answer. He forced me to think about
Speaker 2: my career again, and boom, our show, Our evening was
Speaker 2: born with forty three lessons. These lessons that really defined
Speaker 2: my career. Don't get crazy. By the way, there's not
Speaker 2: enough time to cover all of them today. I can't
Speaker 2: do forty three lessons. But certain events and circumstances did
Speaker 2: happen along the way that I either learned from or
Speaker 2: created case studies of people. You know, I don't particularly
Speaker 2: like humans, but they're life lessons, business lessons. So I
Speaker 2: figured it's Thanksgiving weekend and me rediscovering my book. I
Speaker 2: have so much to be grateful for considering I wasn't
Speaker 2: supposed to have this career. I grew up in the
Speaker 2: city projects, I had no advantages. I knew nothing about anything.
Speaker 2: I'm lucky I went to college. Lucky I found, more
Speaker 2: importantly than anything else, when I started working I recognized opportunity.
Speaker 2: It was tangible, but there's something surrounding me, and I
Speaker 2: realized when I saw this company I was involved. I
Speaker 2: had a chance to be successful. Yes, I could talk
Speaker 2: about the lessons. I could talk about many things, family, friends,
Speaker 2: those things that mean so much, but in that this
Speaker 2: is a business show, and yes it touches on cultural lifestyle.
Speaker 2: I would thought I would take an opportunity to say
Speaker 2: thanks to the lessons that I learned, then, perhaps even
Speaker 2: more importantly, perhaps sharing at the end of this hour,
Speaker 2: you'll be grateful for sticking around and listening. Maybe you'll
Speaker 2: have a few life lessons of your own having heard
Speaker 2: the show tonight. With that in mind, I'm grateful more
Speaker 2: than anything tonight to have my lawyer, my co host,
Speaker 2: and Jesse Webber talking career lessons or the actual title
Speaker 2: of the show is thanks for the memories, because they're
Speaker 2: all great memories. Hey, Jess, got any career lessons?
Speaker 3: You mentioned one of my favorite movies, The Firm. I
Speaker 3: think it was actually one of the reasons I decided
Speaker 3: to go to law school. That and a Few Good Men.
Speaker 3: Those were the two Tom Cruise Legal movies. By the way,
Speaker 3: False advertising, Okay, let me be clear, that's not actually
Speaker 3: what being a lawyer is like. They kind of it's
Speaker 3: same thing with suits. They make it look so much
Speaker 3: glamorous than it is. Although he did work a ton
Speaker 3: in the firm, But the law I remembered.
Speaker 4: I love it. I love the law. Thought it was great.
Speaker 4: Love law school.
Speaker 3: Did great in law school, But my gosh, practicing it's
Speaker 3: a night It's a nightmare. I hated practicing corporate law
Speaker 3: and intellectual property loves.
Speaker 4: I look learned a lot of lessons, learned from.
Speaker 3: Great people, but that practice is very, very tough and daunting,
Speaker 3: and as often the case may be.
Speaker 2: I got to tell you something. You know, when I
Speaker 2: grew up in my roles and I work with corporate
Speaker 2: attorneys sitting on the board solving problems with us, they
Speaker 2: were having great times and they were talking about strategy,
Speaker 2: and you know, they had people working for them to
Speaker 2: do the dirty works. So you weren't there yet.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, were these outside lawyers or were they
Speaker 3: your general counsel?
Speaker 2: Uh? Outside lawyers?
Speaker 3: Oh, that's surprising because usually they hate their lives. But
Speaker 3: in house counsel loved their positions anyway, So I wasn't
Speaker 3: for me I knew it wasn't going to be for me.
Speaker 4: I knew that wasn't going to be the next thirty
Speaker 4: forty years of my life.
Speaker 3: So, as often the case may be, it's who you
Speaker 3: know and through your contacts in radio, we were introduced
Speaker 3: to tams and Vidal. If you don't who Tamsin is,
Speaker 3: first of all, shame on you, because she's one of
Speaker 3: the anchors and Picks eleven and TAM's in was always
Speaker 3: in the news business and we met with her and
Speaker 3: she was so kind and I said, listen, I want
Speaker 3: to be on TV.
Speaker 4: I want to be a host, I want to host
Speaker 4: game shows.
Speaker 3: I want to be like the next Ryan Seacrest, I
Speaker 3: want to be an anchor, all these different things.
Speaker 4: And she says, what WHOA.
Speaker 3: You need to focus You need to focus on what
Speaker 3: your skills are, and you need to focus on what
Speaker 3: you can do. What's the easiest way for you to
Speaker 3: get into media. The easiest way is you're an attorney.
Speaker 3: You should go on television and be a legal analyst.
Speaker 3: That is a way to break through. And I said, wow,
Speaker 3: that's a really good idea. And I'll never forget the
Speaker 3: first thing that I did. One of the very first
Speaker 3: things I did was Fox News because I and I
Speaker 3: tell you, I've never been more nervous in my life
Speaker 3: being on Fox News. And I was a legal analyst
Speaker 3: for a session for a Hit. And from there, I
Speaker 3: started doing CNN, CBS, I did Crime Watch Daily with
Speaker 3: Chris Hansen.
Speaker 4: I did all these different shows.
Speaker 3: And as you're doing that and you're meeting different lawyers,
Speaker 3: you're meeting different people in media. I came to find
Speaker 3: out that Dan Abrams from ABC News was starting a
Speaker 3: company called law News. It's now law on Crime, and
Speaker 3: they were doing live trial coverage, and so I got
Speaker 3: on there as a guest. I made a few guest
Speaker 3: appearances as a legal analyst, and then I said, are
Speaker 3: you looking for a host? I asked the president, you're
Speaker 3: looking for a host, and she said, yeah, I want
Speaker 3: to audition. I auditioned, I got the part. One thing
Speaker 3: led to another. I became their permanent host for five years,
Speaker 3: hosting that morning show Monday through Friday, and hosting led
Speaker 3: into reporting, it led into a podcast, it led into
Speaker 3: a true crime documentary show. I went into News Nation,
Speaker 3: I went into Sirius, and one thing led into another,
Speaker 3: and I will tell you you have no idea what
Speaker 3: direction your career will go. All I can tell you
Speaker 3: is you have to figure out what you like. You
Speaker 3: have to figure out what your skill set is, and
Speaker 3: you just have to do a great job. And when
Speaker 3: you do a great job, you never know what else
Speaker 3: can happen, what else can happen? And look, luck is
Speaker 3: a luck. You have to have luck, of course, and
Speaker 3: we all need help. It's not bad thing to ask
Speaker 3: for people for help. To also ask people for contacts.
Speaker 3: I think that's a really important thing. And look, her advice.
Speaker 3: Hamsen's advice changed everything for me. I'm incredibly grateful for her.
Speaker 3: It was a career change that made me very, very happy.
Speaker 3: Work doesn't work anymore. I counted the hours, the minutes
Speaker 3: at my law firm until I could leave, and sometimes
Speaker 3: I couldn't leave. But now I'm working more than I've
Speaker 3: ever worked in my life, early mornings, late nights, weekends, holidays.
Speaker 4: But I love it. And so I'm very lucky in
Speaker 4: that sense. And you know you have a line. You
Speaker 4: have a line that I think is so apropos.
Speaker 3: You said, once the company pays me for my head,
Speaker 3: I've thrown in my heart for free. That's how I
Speaker 3: feel so now let me ask you the same question
Speaker 3: harder head.
Speaker 2: What a great question? What a great question. Look, I
Speaker 2: spent thirty years of my career running major corporations, and
Speaker 2: I have to tell you every step of the way,
Speaker 2: I was energized. Every step of the way, I was excited.
Speaker 2: I had so many ups and downs and so many disappointments,
Speaker 2: so I can't tell you I enjoyed everything along the way.
Speaker 2: Many times I was miserable. Many times someone else got
Speaker 2: the job I wanted. But there's a great lesson there.
Speaker 2: If you don't get the job you want, you have
Speaker 2: two choices to mope, to complain, to leave the company,
Speaker 2: to behave appropriately, or understand that it's not personal. For
Speaker 2: whatever the reasons are. The people that made this election
Speaker 2: believe that someone else was more qualified for you than
Speaker 2: you were at that time. I learned to be the
Speaker 2: happiest I could be when I was disappointed. I learned
Speaker 2: to work harder, to work smarter, and to put aside
Speaker 2: by disappointment, and it really really helped. That's a very
Speaker 2: important lesson. On a show I want to talk about lessons,
Speaker 2: but I would tell you that the radio became so
Speaker 2: important to me that today, it's all about the heart.
Speaker 2: I'm here for the heart. I love it. I will
Speaker 2: tell you it is harder to do this show then
Speaker 2: manage a nine billion dollar company. Now I know when
Speaker 2: I say that, no.
Speaker 4: Way, no way, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: But the difference is really once you manage a company,
Speaker 2: Once you learn how to manage a company, you know
Speaker 2: everything to do. You know all the rules, all the tricks,
Speaker 2: all the games, all the technical information that you need
Speaker 2: to get the job done. If somebody cancels merchandise, you
Speaker 2: know what to say. Somebody wants to increase their order,
Speaker 2: but you have to fly it. You'll make less money.
Speaker 2: You know what to do whatever comes up. You're anticipated
Speaker 2: the board questions, when you're looking at your numbers, you
Speaker 2: know when you're doing well. You know when you have
Speaker 2: things to fix. It's a matter of training. It's like
Speaker 2: Olympic athletes. You have to watch these people in gymnastics,
Speaker 2: for example. How do they do the things they do?
Speaker 2: How do they do those floor exercise? How do they
Speaker 2: do the high meat, how do they do whatever? That
Speaker 2: thing is the bench they walk across that's four inches.
Speaker 2: It's crazy. No one in this world should be able
Speaker 2: to do that, but they can do it because they've
Speaker 2: practiced and practiced and practiced. So in corporate life, I
Speaker 2: had done it for so long it was became easy.
Speaker 2: There was an answer for everything. Radio podcasts totally different.
Speaker 2: It is Saturday night, Sunday night, this show is on.
Speaker 2: I wake up Monday morning. I have no idea what
Speaker 2: next week's show is. Tuesday night, idea, Wednesday, no idea.
Speaker 2: I'm looking something. Hit me please. And then not only
Speaker 2: do I have to get an idea out of the sky,
Speaker 2: something luckily happens, I have to ask myself, how is
Speaker 2: this relevant? How do we turn it into something that's
Speaker 2: going to be interesting. How do we give the listeners
Speaker 2: you out there, something that you could remember, that you
Speaker 2: could turn to, that you could use. One of my
Speaker 2: favorite things on the radio. Even the the program manager
Speaker 2: of War has told me that he's been listening to
Speaker 2: my show. And there are circumstances when he gets home
Speaker 2: to have his dinner, he's in the driveway listening to
Speaker 2: the show and it hasn't ended yet, and he texts
Speaker 2: his wife, I can't come in right now. I have
Speaker 2: to finish this. I am amazed at what I'm listening to.
Speaker 2: And he listens to the show. So those things that
Speaker 2: happened to me really mean a lot to me. And
Speaker 2: it's turned out that radio is not for the money.
Speaker 2: I have worked long enough not to have to think
Speaker 2: about money. It's not for it's not other than what
Speaker 2: it does for me in my heart. It makes me
Speaker 2: feel good to know that I can do this, that
Speaker 2: I have listened to enjoy what we have to say.
Speaker 2: And while I'm not a big guy and having to
Speaker 2: give back, I could care less about anyone. But the
Speaker 2: reality is when I talk my lessons and I know
Speaker 2: they're going to help someone, and I know know what
Speaker 2: he thought about it before, I love it and it
Speaker 2: all means so much to me now before we leave.
Speaker 2: Has that for an answer, Jess, good answer.
Speaker 4: It's a good answer.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Having said that, before we leave, it's time to talk Trump.
Speaker 2: What's going on with him?
Speaker 4: Big thing this week? His uh Remember the we talked
Speaker 4: about this last time we were on the show.
Speaker 3: Remember I told you that the prosecutor who's been going
Speaker 3: after him on the federal cases will he officially moved
Speaker 3: to dismiss the case against Donald Trump. He's gonna throw
Speaker 3: it out. That's that's something we expected was gonna happen.
Speaker 3: It's a big win for Donald Trump. I can't imagine
Speaker 3: that there would be any situation where it revives itself currently,
Speaker 3: so it's one less headache for him to think about.
Speaker 2: That's great, let's get on with it. I'm doing the
Speaker 2: Trump Well.
Speaker 4: Let's well, well, let's be clear.
Speaker 3: The prosecutor didn't dismiss it for the merits. He said
Speaker 3: he could have proved the case. He said that he
Speaker 3: still thinks Donald Trump committed Yeah, yeah, yeah, but because
Speaker 3: but because he's the president of the United States, he
Speaker 3: has no choice but to drop it.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, that's good. Having said that, tonight's show, there's
Speaker 2: something to be grateful. Tonight's show is part thankful and
Speaker 2: tonight's show has a lot to do with something called
Speaker 2: the forty three Lessons. Well, take a break, we'll be
Speaker 2: back in a minute.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Always in Fashion.
Speaker 4: Here's your host, Mark Webber.
Speaker 2: Even though it's Thanksgiving weekend, I'm not doing a Thanksgiving show. Hi,
Speaker 2: I would say to you, it's kind of mixed. This
Speaker 2: is about lessons learned, a lot of great memories. But
Speaker 2: in the end, it's not Thanksgiving. But I am thankful,
Speaker 2: and there are certain things that I want to talk
Speaker 2: about that are a little different than most Thanksgiving shows
Speaker 2: would be. If we were to do one right now,
Speaker 2: I wanted to talk about greatest inventions. I want to
Speaker 2: talk about the greatest inventions because they have to be
Speaker 2: thankful for them. Now. I know for a fact what
Speaker 2: the world thinks is the greatest invention. You're ready, do
Speaker 2: you know what it is?
Speaker 4: Jesse the cell phone?
Speaker 2: Haha? Will come to that. No, the greatest invention considered
Speaker 2: by all the scientists and the people in the know
Speaker 2: are the following I'll read it. The wheel. The wheel
Speaker 2: can be considered mankind's most important invention, the utility of
Speaker 2: which it's still applied in multiple spheres of our daily life.
Speaker 2: While most other inventions have been derived from nature itself,
Speaker 2: the wheel is one hundred percent of product of human invention.
Speaker 2: If you think back to the chariots in the old days,
Speaker 2: there's not a machine that doesn't have a wheel. This
Speaker 2: is not a travel vehicle that doesn't have a wheel.
Speaker 2: The wheel is the greatest invention. Having said it, there
Speaker 2: are modern day inventions that you know are so important.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about that, Jesse, while we're talking about
Speaker 2: a different view of Thanksgiving. What do you think are
Speaker 2: the most important modern day inventions?
Speaker 1: And what?
Speaker 3: Look I as I say this, because I know this
Speaker 3: is the most important invention, but I hate it.
Speaker 4: The cell phone.
Speaker 3: It's in many ways, nothing has revolutionized our life more
Speaker 3: in the last twenty years. Nothing nothing, and their access
Speaker 3: to information, What it's done for your life, your ability
Speaker 3: to communicate with people, how it's helped your career, everything.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, everybody's glued to their phones.
Speaker 4: No one's in the moment anymore.
Speaker 3: So many people are addicted to social media. They've lost
Speaker 3: their ability to communicate. So it's one of those inventions
Speaker 3: that I if it went away tomorrow, I don't even
Speaker 3: know how our society would function. But b it's it's
Speaker 3: it's not my favorite thing that's been invented.
Speaker 2: Would agree. Three times in the last month, I forgot
Speaker 2: to take my phone with me when I went out
Speaker 2: to dinner. I was lost. I was lost. I was
Speaker 2: so unhappy. Twice I went back to the house because
Speaker 2: I wasn't too far away to pick up the phone.
Speaker 2: What do you do there sitting look around nobody to
Speaker 2: talk to. I mean it was crazy that it's like
Speaker 2: a vast emptiness. You could feel it like in a
Speaker 2: pit of your stomach. So, yeah, cell phone is incredibly important.
Speaker 2: But you know, the predecessor to the cell phone was
Speaker 2: the printing press. People again will tell you that the
Speaker 2: printing press was one of the most important inventions that
Speaker 2: ever back in the cowboy days. There's a method for
Speaker 2: people to communicate. You know, when you watch those movies,
Speaker 2: you see the sign wanted and all these things, so
Speaker 2: they have that. There's another one we don't think about.
Speaker 2: We take for granted the incandescent light bulb. You imagine
Speaker 2: if we're still lighting the world with candles.
Speaker 4: Yeah, electricity, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: It's amazing, amazing. Tell me, Jesse, give me an invention.
Speaker 2: You can't live.
Speaker 4: Without bottled water. Does anybody think about bottle water? Think
Speaker 4: about that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, the bottles are poisonous.
Speaker 3: After those reports that plastic is like the worst thing
Speaker 3: ever for you, there's so many glass bottles that are circulating.
Speaker 4: Now, what about you, what do you think is a
Speaker 4: good invention?
Speaker 2: HM? For me? If you're asking me what's important to me,
Speaker 2: I would tell you one of the most important inventions
Speaker 2: is heating and air conditioning.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's fair, believe it.
Speaker 2: Or I grew up at a building when I was
Speaker 2: really young in the city projects that wasn't wired for
Speaker 2: air conditioning. Can you believe it? Because the tenants weren't paying,
Speaker 2: they didn't fill it up with air conditioning events. It
Speaker 2: was a misery. It was a misery in the summer.
Speaker 2: Oh crazy, So air conditioning.
Speaker 4: You know, it's yeah, you know, it's an amazing invention.
Speaker 4: The toilet not a good society.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you, well to the Beatles, why don't
Speaker 2: you do it in the road. Yeah, that's a really
Speaker 2: great invention, you know, no question about it. All right.
Speaker 2: Now it's your turn. What do you have out there
Speaker 2: that you can't live without that we take for granted.
Speaker 4: A blow dryer?
Speaker 2: I need it, I need it. It's important.
Speaker 4: What about you?
Speaker 2: Oh you come back to me. Huh hmmm. I haven't
Speaker 2: given this my thought. I'm ready to talk on the radio,
Speaker 2: and I haven't given enough thought. Well, of course, the automobile.
Speaker 2: Where would we be without an automobile? I mean, it's
Speaker 2: changed the world in which we live, and I love cars.
Speaker 2: I love what they represent and really made the world smaller.
Speaker 2: Before we finish, we're going to talk about I got
Speaker 2: a great question for you. I'm not ready to talk
Speaker 2: about it. Yes, I'll give you a chance to think.
Speaker 2: What hasn't been invented that you want to be invented?
Speaker 2: Good question?
Speaker 3: But yet I think, I mean, when you think about it,
Speaker 3: the airplane. What an invention to get across the country?
Speaker 4: When what what do we do?
Speaker 3: Back in the day, we were on ships that took
Speaker 3: months to get from A to B. It's amazing the airplane.
Speaker 3: And now I've seen I've seen reports that they're trying
Speaker 3: to build a hypersonic airplane that could take you to
Speaker 3: New York to London in an hour.
Speaker 4: I don't know if that'll happen.
Speaker 2: But well, it's interesting you mentioned that because the part
Speaker 2: of the show that's Thanksgiving, let's say thanks to travel,
Speaker 2: and let's say thank you to the airplane. But I
Speaker 2: have to say, when it comes to the airplane, it
Speaker 2: has not been very good for me politically. I've had
Speaker 2: a lot of political problems at places I worked because
Speaker 2: of the airplane.
Speaker 4: Wait, what do you mean politically.
Speaker 2: Okay, So you mentioned hypersonic plights. I used to travel
Speaker 2: the Concord all the time. One time, the first time,
Speaker 2: my boss invites me to go to London on the
Speaker 2: Concorde and he says to me, listen, we're going to
Speaker 2: leave in the morning. We have meeting in the afternoon,
Speaker 2: and then we're having dinner. So we're going to take
Speaker 2: the concorder. Allows us to get there and we'll be
Speaker 2: able to do everything. It still be the same day.
Speaker 2: We'll go home. Tomorrow, we'll be home. We wouldn't even
Speaker 2: miss New York. But it is amazing. So I said, great.
Speaker 2: So I said to myself, you know, I'm going to
Speaker 2: have to change my clothes. I'm going to bring one suitcase.
Speaker 2: I bring a suitcase and I decide to check it.
Speaker 2: Never thought twice about it. It's concord, small plane. Whatever.
Speaker 2: We land in London, my boss starts getting off the plane.
Speaker 2: He goes upstairs. You can't the concord the way it
Speaker 2: was set up. The bins overhead were so small you
Speaker 2: couldn't put anything in but a briefcase. But when you
Speaker 2: walked on the plane, the steward or the stewardess would
Speaker 2: or the flight attend or whatever's the correct political way
Speaker 2: to say it now, would take your bag, and there
Speaker 2: was a section for storage on the plane. I didn't
Speaker 2: know this. I packed my bag. So he takes this
Speaker 2: thing and he starts to walk. I said, I checked
Speaker 2: my bag, and in slow motion he was walking in
Speaker 2: front of me. He turns around and makes this look
Speaker 2: on his face. What did you say to me? I
Speaker 2: checked my bag? He said, are you a mutant? We
Speaker 2: took the concord. What are you checking a bag for?
Speaker 2: You know how to check your bag. We want to
Speaker 2: get out of you. I can't believe you check a bag.
Speaker 2: I can't believe I'm traveling with an amateur. As it
Speaker 2: turns out, my bag was the last one off the plane.
Speaker 2: It took twenty five minutes to get the bag. I
Speaker 2: was so embarrassed in my life that they never ended.
Speaker 2: We got in the car, finally checked your bag.
Speaker 4: What are you?
Speaker 2: Who are you? Why am I traveling with you? If
Speaker 2: you don't know that you don't check a bag on
Speaker 2: that concord. So that's one example of political problems.
Speaker 4: You have more than one political example of traveling.
Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness, my goodness, my goodness. The next one
Speaker 2: takes place in the Philippines. You ever been to the Philippines.
Speaker 4: I have not. I've been to Japan, I've been to
Speaker 4: Hong Kong, never the Philippines.
Speaker 2: I had never been to the Philippines either. And I
Speaker 2: was in Asia. I was working, you know, I said
Speaker 2: in my book again mentioned the book always in fashion.
Speaker 2: Yul should buy it, you should read it. But I'm
Speaker 2: not really hawking books, nor do I care if you
Speaker 2: buy it. Stay stupid your whole lives. Anyway, get my book,
Speaker 2: You'll be very thankful. But anyway, I'm in Asia. I'm
Speaker 2: in Hong Kong. I just spent two weeks in Hong Kong.
Speaker 2: I finished my work and record time. I really really
Speaker 2: had a successful trip. I acquired everything we needed. I
Speaker 2: got great prices for the company. I carried the flag
Speaker 2: well for the company, good political meetings. Everything was great,
Speaker 2: made new allies, made new suppliers. I'm done, and I'm
Speaker 2: ready to get on the plane the next morning to
Speaker 2: fly home. And I get a text from then my
Speaker 2: new boss, who I've been working for maybe a couple
Speaker 2: of months at Max. He says, I'm coming to Asia tomorrow.
Speaker 2: He said, this is Sunday, He says, I'm coming to
Speaker 2: Asia on Tuesday, that we'll meet on Wednesday. So I
Speaker 2: write them back, it's saturday. I'm ready to go home.
Speaker 2: He says, well, we're meeting on Wednesday. I said, I
Speaker 2: finished all my work, and he said to me he's
Speaker 2: senior VP of whatever his title general merchandise. He smark,
Speaker 2: let me repeat it again. I don't care if it's Saturday.
Speaker 2: I don't care if it's Monday, I don't care if
Speaker 2: it's Wednesday. I'm getting in Wednesday night. We're going to
Speaker 2: meet on Thursday. Stick around. I'll see you then. So
Speaker 2: I stopped texting. You know, I got really really pissed off,
Speaker 2: really really pissed off. I was with two other guys,
Speaker 2: one of them was from our office in Asia, and
Speaker 2: I said, you know, I'm not sticking around. He said
Speaker 2: to me, what do you mean you're not sticking around.
Speaker 2: I said, it's going to be the weekend. I want
Speaker 2: to enjoy myself. I want to go somewhere i've never been.
Speaker 2: I've never been to the Philippines. And he looks at
Speaker 2: me like I'm crazy. He says, the Philippines. How are
Speaker 2: you going to justify that? I said, I told you,
Speaker 2: I'm ready to finish my work. I have nothing to
Speaker 2: do here. I did everything we need to do. Well.
Speaker 2: You accomplished. You should be going home. You should be
Speaker 2: going home. There was another guy from New York. I
Speaker 2: should be going home. I don't want to sit around
Speaker 2: and with take a vacation. They're like freaking out. They
Speaker 2: don't know what to do. I said, you can come
Speaker 2: with me. There's no reason you should sit here. So
Speaker 2: the three of us TechEd the travel office in Hong
Speaker 2: Kong where we are, and I said, book me to
Speaker 2: the Philippines. I want to stay in the Manila hotel.
Speaker 2: We're going to spend the week that we're gonna fly
Speaker 2: home Wednesday night. So I got on an airplane went
Speaker 2: to the Philippines to hang out. Now, the Philippines is
Speaker 2: an interesting place. Didn't at the time. It felt a
Speaker 2: little like an arm camp at the time. But beautiful
Speaker 2: beach is beautiful hotel. I loved it. And here we
Speaker 2: are staying on the beach, getting out tan, hanging out
Speaker 2: in the beach. And I got a text Wednesday night.
Speaker 2: I didn't know. We wanted to have dinner. Where are
Speaker 2: you I'm having dinner? What time you were coming down,
Speaker 2: and I said, uh, well, I'm stuttering and I didn't
Speaker 2: even text it yet. I said, we're still in the Philippines,
Speaker 2: so silence. What are you doing in the Philippines? Silence?
Speaker 2: Hanging out? What do you mean hanging out? Are you
Speaker 2: visiting with suppliers? Did you have business meetings there? Silence?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Then what are you doing there waiting for you? You
Speaker 2: were in a Hong Kong. Who authorized you to go
Speaker 2: to the Philippines? Silence. I didn't think I need authorization.
Speaker 2: I should have been going home. I will see you tomorrow. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll see you tomorrow that following morning. Now, this is
Speaker 2: my new boss. He was seeing the VP exact VP.
Speaker 2: I was a VP. He was a heavyweight, and you
Speaker 2: know he was pissed. He looks at me. He said,
Speaker 2: mister Weber, you do know how companies work, don't you?
Speaker 2: I said, in what regard? He said, who you work for?
Speaker 2: I said yes. He said, I told you I want
Speaker 2: to meet me with you Thursday. I said, it's Thursday.
Speaker 2: I'm here because I didn't tell you to go take
Speaker 2: a vacation in the Philippines. No, you didn't. I did
Speaker 2: that on my own. So he said who's paying for it?
Speaker 2: I said, I used a company credit card. Who would
Speaker 2: be paying for it? Silence? Silence, He said, mister Weber,
Speaker 2: I would call you Mark, but I'm really upset with
Speaker 2: you right now. No one authorized you to take a vacation,
Speaker 2: I said, you know what, his name was John. In
Speaker 2: the history of my time with the company, I've been
Speaker 2: to Asia, probably at this point thirty times, and in
Speaker 2: thirty times, no one ever asked me to stay longer
Speaker 2: than I had to. Having been away for two weeks,
Speaker 2: you asked me to stay. I stayed. I spent some
Speaker 2: quiet downtime over the weekend in the Philippines. Did you
Speaker 2: take any appointments?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Why not? I instructed our team that I didn't want
Speaker 2: to have any meetings. We were taking the time off.
Speaker 2: He was so pissed. So when I say to you,
Speaker 2: I had trouble with airplanes, you know this is the
Speaker 2: kind of thing I was talking about.
Speaker 4: Why were you such a wise guy? To him?
Speaker 2: The honest answer, because I could be. I was so
Speaker 2: highly regarded at this time. I walked on water. I
Speaker 2: didn't do it without knowing that there was nothing he
Speaker 2: can do. He was new to the position. He desperately
Speaker 2: needed me at the time. He didn't need me in
Speaker 2: the pat in the future, you know, no, it did.
Speaker 2: No one's irreplaceable. But at that moment in time, doing
Speaker 2: the job I was doing, he had nowhere to go,
Speaker 2: and I knew I had him.
Speaker 4: So I'm imagining this is the only other political issue
Speaker 4: that you've had.
Speaker 2: Traveling not so fast, all right. You know, I used
Speaker 2: to enjoy hanging out in the sun. Before you know,
Speaker 2: we all realized how danger it is. I used to
Speaker 2: love it. And I was with a group of people
Speaker 2: in Taiwan staying the Grand Hotel in Taiwan. The Grand
Speaker 2: Hotel in Taiwan is the biggest hotel you've ever seen.
Speaker 2: It's I can't explain it. Every room it's first of all,
Speaker 2: it's modeled after ancient China. Every room has floor to
Speaker 2: ceilings got to be thirty feet. It's all in that
Speaker 2: old mahogany wood. The beds are used. My floor must
Speaker 2: have been three thousand square feet. It was the nicest
Speaker 2: room in the world, and they had the greatest swimming pool.
Speaker 2: And people who knew when they travel, if they had
Speaker 2: to go to Taiwan and they needed to be there
Speaker 2: near the weekend. They stay in Taiwan at that hotel
Speaker 2: for the weekend because between the tennis courts and the
Speaker 2: swimming pool and the weather is always beautiful, great place
Speaker 2: to stay, so no reason to get in trouble, right,
Speaker 2: So what happened? Good question, now that you asked. So
Speaker 2: Saturday night, we stayed the day in Taiwan, stayed by
Speaker 2: the pool. It was unbelievably gorgeous, and the next day
Speaker 2: Sunday was going to be even more gorgeous. And instead
Speaker 2: of having to fly in on Saturday in the morning,
Speaker 2: we got there at twelve. We didn't have a full day.
Speaker 2: I said to myself, can you imagine how great it
Speaker 2: would be to stay here a full day, wake up
Speaker 2: in the morning, have breakfast, go down to the pool,
Speaker 2: play some tennis with everybody, and have a great time,
Speaker 2: and then fly to Hong Kong on Monday. Like we
Speaker 2: all agreed in the first place. There is one problem though.
Speaker 2: The president of the company, who's a very close business
Speaker 2: friend of mine, was having a birthday party Sunday night,
Speaker 2: and a lot of people from the Hong Kong office
Speaker 2: were going as well as me and my entourage of
Speaker 2: eight people, and I had a choice to make go
Speaker 2: to his birthday party and eat another Chinese dinner with
Speaker 2: our Chinese office, or take the day off and stay
Speaker 2: in Hong Kong and miss his birthday party. Guess which
Speaker 2: I did. Stayed in Taiwan, I stayed at the Grand Hotel,
Speaker 2: didn't show up for the party. He got crazy. We
Speaker 2: worked together for the next ten years. You couldn't have
Speaker 2: people who liked each other more, respected each other more,
Speaker 2: who enjoyed each other more. He was more of a
Speaker 2: father than a boss to me. Never forgave me.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 2: When it comes to inventions, in particular the airplane, while
Speaker 2: I love it, it just made the world a small place.
Speaker 2: It's taken me everywhere you can possibly manage. Politically, it
Speaker 2: hasn't been a good friend, Okay, Jesse. Now the best
Speaker 2: question of all, best question ever on inventions. What invention
Speaker 2: hasn't been invented yet that you'd like to be invented?
Speaker 3: You mean, aside from the cure to every single disease.
Speaker 3: Put that to the side.
Speaker 4: I would say this is I've been thought about this
Speaker 4: a while. Teleportation.
Speaker 3: How amazing would it be to teleport wherever you want
Speaker 3: to go, anywhere, at any time?
Speaker 4: Great idea, I want to go anywhere I want at
Speaker 4: any time. That's what I think. That would be an
Speaker 4: amazing life.
Speaker 2: And is your teleportation instantaneous instantaneous? Oh, that's a great one.
Speaker 2: What about you, You're almost touched on it. I want
Speaker 2: a fountain a youth. I want to be twenty three
Speaker 2: years old again. You imagine anybody in this world who
Speaker 2: could get young again? What they pay for it? What
Speaker 2: a what an incredible idea to get young again. I
Speaker 2: would like that to happen. And by the way, if
Speaker 2: it is, let's go, let's make it soon. I miss
Speaker 2: those days at twenty three. So yeah, that would be
Speaker 2: a great one.
Speaker 3: That's a good one. That's a good one. I can't
Speaker 3: I can't deny. That's a great one.
Speaker 2: And those of you who look in the mirror all
Speaker 2: the time, I'm sure some of you are thinking hair growth,
Speaker 2: elimination of humidity in your hair, elimination of wrinkles.
Speaker 3: They you know, like like what's it called weight loss drugs,
Speaker 3: instantaneous weight loss drugs, but those have already been invented,
Speaker 3: have kind of caused issues.
Speaker 2: I'd like to invent good tastes for all of you
Speaker 2: out there. Have absolutely the worst taste so many of you.
Speaker 2: If it wasn't for bad taste, I have no taste
Speaker 2: at all. I wish I could just teach everyone how
Speaker 2: to dress so I wouldn't have to look at you
Speaker 2: the way you do. I would re uninvent shorts and
Speaker 2: uninvent sandals for men. I would do a whole bunch
Speaker 2: of things. You uninvent brown shoes on navy suits. No
Speaker 2: brown shoes at night, for sure. But having said that,
Speaker 2: I'm thankful for inventions. Having said that, if you're listening closely,
Speaker 2: there's some good lessons there. Back in a minute. Always
Speaker 2: in fashion, I spent a lifetime of my career building
Speaker 2: the van Usen Brand, and I am so pleased that
Speaker 2: they're back with us now talking about suits. Men were
Speaker 2: dressing up again, and it's become cool to wear a suit.
Speaker 2: Suits can be won on multiplccasions in multiple ways. Could
Speaker 2: wear a suit formally to go out at night or
Speaker 2: to an event, to wear a suit to the office
Speaker 2: with or without a tie. If you look closely, now
Speaker 2: fashion trends, suits are being worn with turtlenecks or mack next,
Speaker 2: the choices are endless, and every one of them looks right.
Speaker 2: You could really, really look the part. I believe that
Speaker 2: packaging yourself is as important does the products you package,
Speaker 2: and wearing a suit is one of those things that
Speaker 2: make men look their best. Venues In invented a new idea.
Speaker 2: It's called the cool Flex suit. It's been engineered with
Speaker 2: stretch technology, giving you the most comfortable fit and mobility.
Speaker 2: Its wrinkle resistant fabric, it's cool moisture WICKI it makes
Speaker 2: it perfect for all occasions. As we discussed just now,
Speaker 2: this new style of looking sharp while feeling cool and
Speaker 2: comfortable is amazing, and I'm so excited that the ven
Speaker 2: Using company is involved in this new technology and is
Speaker 2: embracing the whole idea of dressing up. Let's not forget
Speaker 2: van Using made its name with dress shirts. It's only
Speaker 2: proper that the suit business follows strongly in its way.
Speaker 2: You can find van Using cool Flex Men's stretch suits
Speaker 2: at jcpenny or online at jcpenny dot com. Guys, they're great.
Speaker 2: You should go look at them. I've been shopping for
Speaker 2: fun lately, and while I'm out, I always look at
Speaker 2: men's and I look at women's. What's going on? And
Speaker 2: I was particularly interested in DKY because of their sponsorship
Speaker 2: of the show. I went downstairs at Macy's thirty fourth
Speaker 2: Street to look around and I saw DKY Activewear, and
Speaker 2: I promise you, ladies, it is sensational. From the sports
Speaker 2: bras to the crop tops, to the leggings and the sweats.
Speaker 2: It really is a great look. And dk Y had
Speaker 2: begun as an all American brand dressing casual clothes engines,
Speaker 2: and the stuff looks incredible and right now the colors
Speaker 2: and the styles is so exciting that I feel great
Speaker 2: about the company. I always do. I wear the men's
Speaker 2: were all the time. I've had situations where I've gone
Speaker 2: to big events and been interviewed TV or the radio,
Speaker 2: and someone comes up to me with a microphone and
Speaker 2: like they always do, who you're wearing? And here I am,
Speaker 2: this big shot with big company and they say, well,
Speaker 2: I'm wearing a DKY and they laugh and say, no,
Speaker 2: you're not. I actually have one on the internet where
Speaker 2: you could see me. They asked me what suit I'm wearing,
Speaker 2: and I say dk and why and open it up
Speaker 2: and there's the DKY label. Great fashion, It fits well,
Speaker 2: it looks right. It's designed to make you comfortable in
Speaker 2: the city. Goes from day and tonight. You could wear
Speaker 2: it in the morning, you wear it in the afternoon,
Speaker 2: and you look cool at night as well. It's great
Speaker 2: for the office, it's a great for leisure. But I'm
Speaker 2: talking about the DKY activewear. The first time I really
Speaker 2: became aware of Jesse and I were up at Sirius Radio.
Speaker 2: He was doing a job for Serious He does Dan
Speaker 2: Abrams show, he fills in on the Potus Network, and
Speaker 2: we were in the lobby and this hip hop group
Speaker 2: came up with this really great looking Latino singer girl
Speaker 2: young beautiful, and she was wearing a DKY sports bra,
Speaker 2: and I said to myself, this is amazing. Actually went
Speaker 2: to Macy's to see it, and I'm excited about the brand.
Speaker 2: And I tell you what, ladies, DKY always has great
Speaker 2: fashion for work, always wonderful dresses and things that you'd wear.
Speaker 2: Their accessories are great, the shoes are always very cool.
Speaker 2: But active wear in particular right now looks sensational and
Speaker 2: being that everyone's athleasure and active where it's a great time.
Speaker 2: Dkhy go take a.
Speaker 4: Look, welcome back to it. Always in fashion. Here's your host,
Speaker 4: Mark Webber.
Speaker 2: You know, I have such a good time tonight. I
Speaker 2: didn't even get to what the show was really about.
Speaker 2: What happened really to me this week is I saw
Speaker 2: the movie Tom Cruise The Firm, where he remembered that
Speaker 2: the law He went back and remembered that the law
Speaker 2: was this answer to the puzzle in this movie The Firm,
Speaker 2: And I want to go into the movie. You don't
Speaker 2: know it too bad, You should go watch. It's a
Speaker 2: great movie, only be greater, not quite as great as
Speaker 2: a few Good Men, but two great movies. But what
Speaker 2: it did for me, it remembered for me. I had
Speaker 2: a fellow who asked me to send him a copy
Speaker 2: of the book, a friend of the named named Michael,
Speaker 2: and he sent me his copy. I signed it and
Speaker 2: sent it back to him. And when I was looking
Speaker 2: at his book, I happened to notice on the back
Speaker 2: page one of the quotes given by a fellow named
Speaker 2: Gilbert Harrison, who wrote in a chapter called in case
Speaker 2: you weren't paying attention, Gilbert Harrison wrote a fascinating tale
Speaker 2: about the book. He wrote about the book, a fascinating
Speaker 2: tale with the most intriguing chapter featuring Weber's forty three
Speaker 2: lessons everyone should consider to becoming a success, and it
Speaker 2: reminded me that I went and I looked at the
Speaker 2: forty one lessons. I went and looked at the forty
Speaker 2: three lessons, and that's where the whole show came from.
Speaker 2: Having said that we have so of these topics to cover.
Speaker 2: I didn't get it until just now, and I wanted
Speaker 2: to give you a little insight. I over time intended
Speaker 2: to do all forty three of those lessons and talk
Speaker 2: about them, particularly those that I haven't ever covered before.
Speaker 2: Don't get nervous. I don't have time tonight to do
Speaker 2: all forty one. I'll pick the first one in the book,
Speaker 2: and maybe then I'll make an impression with you, and
Speaker 2: on a night we're talking Thanksgiving at the same time,
Speaker 2: something that you might give thanks to when you think
Speaker 2: about it all alone. This is a career lesson. When
Speaker 2: I first started working, I was so respectful of all
Speaker 2: the people around me. I realized that as a team,
Speaker 2: it wasn't like baseball. When I played baseball, everyone on
Speaker 2: the baseball team had a role. Now I'm in corporate
Speaker 2: life with no experience of sitting around a room and
Speaker 2: I'm watching everyone has a different role, and the team
Speaker 2: I'm with I see as a financial officer who's talking
Speaker 2: about the money and the finances. There's a sales team
Speaker 2: talking about what they need to get done. There's an
Speaker 2: operation team whose job it is to take all the ideas,
Speaker 2: make products and make sure they get delivered on time.
Speaker 2: And of course there was a design team that's sitting
Speaker 2: there coming up with the ideas of what will be next.
Speaker 2: And it doesn't matter what business you're in. Pretty much,
Speaker 2: I just define those most important things. I'm not counting.
Speaker 2: Concluded is I'm not kind of a warehouse. I should,
Speaker 2: but I'm not because they were represented as well. But
Speaker 2: those few jobs are what make companies run. It doesn't
Speaker 2: matter if you're selling automobiles, you're selling shirts, or you're
Speaker 2: selling rocket ships. So all the same principles have to
Speaker 2: come in play. Ideas, selling them, paying for them, and
Speaker 2: then delivering on the idea. And I'm in this room,
Speaker 2: which was called at the time of bull session where
Speaker 2: everyone came together. The designers in the company would present
Speaker 2: their ideas and everyone would look and rate them and
Speaker 2: decide what to go and what to do from that.
Speaker 2: And I sat in that room and I realized, watching
Speaker 2: these designs so hard, We're working so hard to convince
Speaker 2: everyone that their ideas would make sense and that they
Speaker 2: should be told go forward with everything you suggested. You're brilliant,
Speaker 2: we get it, we'd love it, Just go ahead. It
Speaker 2: didn't work that way. It didn't work that way when
Speaker 2: it got into financial side. You know, the financial guy
Speaker 2: would say something to the effect of, our shirts have
Speaker 2: to sell for twenty five dollars. If we use that
Speaker 2: fabricus suggesting, and we use that quality of details in
Speaker 2: the collars and the cuffs, we'll we be able to
Speaker 2: sell that shirt for twenty five dollars and make money.
Speaker 2: The designer couldn't answer the question because those days or
Speaker 2: that particular designer didn't understand his own finances. How could
Speaker 2: you be valid? How could you be designer? How could
Speaker 2: you represent any product whatsoever if you don't understand what
Speaker 2: it costs. Then the question became how long will it
Speaker 2: take to get here? You're talking about a style that's
Speaker 2: starting to develop, now you're seeing it in the stores.
Speaker 2: We're going to be at the tail end of it.
Speaker 2: We're going to miss the initial rust thrust. We're going
Speaker 2: to miss the initial thrust. How and when are you
Speaker 2: going to get it here? And unfortunately, the same designers
Speaker 2: sitting there, and he doesn't answer the question. He knows
Speaker 2: that his designs are done, but he doesn't understand the cycle.
Speaker 2: He doesn't understand, let alone the life cycle of the
Speaker 2: p when do you gotta have it and when do
Speaker 2: you have to be finished with it? But he didn't
Speaker 2: understand from development to execution when it would be delivered.
Speaker 2: The sales team were doing their own calculations about how
Speaker 2: many should we buy and who will buy it, and
Speaker 2: they started to talk about it, and you could see
Speaker 2: on pretty much everyone else's face blank stares. Because only
Speaker 2: the salespeople understood the potential and how to develop it.
Speaker 2: The operation people in the warehouse had to make room
Speaker 2: for it. They had to be ready if these things
Speaker 2: came in late and they had to be delivered in October.
Speaker 2: If they came in in October, how are they going
Speaker 2: to turn it around and get it out in October?
Speaker 2: And it was at that moment that I realized how
Speaker 2: important it was to understand every aspect of the business.
Speaker 2: I began in design. I was good at it. I
Speaker 2: wasn't great. I was smart, but I wasn't great. I
Speaker 2: wasn't a donna Karen. I wasn't a Calvin Klein. I
Speaker 2: was more of an operational designer. I knew that from
Speaker 2: a talent point of view, I didn't care about design
Speaker 2: to the extent those other people would. So I had
Speaker 2: to bring something different to the table. And it was
Speaker 2: all those subjects that I knew nothing about for my
Speaker 2: entire career. If you asked me to come speak at
Speaker 2: your school, speak at your office, speak in your facilities,
Speaker 2: if you're a congressman of senator, anybody asked to me
Speaker 2: to come and speak, my speech will always be do
Speaker 2: you want to be the puppet master or the puppet?
Speaker 2: It comes from the visual of the movie The Godfather,
Speaker 2: which to this day has stayed and lasted to test
Speaker 2: the time. To me, I'm so into movies. It's still
Speaker 2: my favorite movie of all time. And I remember in
Speaker 2: the early days looking at the cover of that movie
Speaker 2: on the book Mario Pusa, and I'm just trying to
Speaker 2: understand what it meant. And I realized that the Godfather
Speaker 2: was the puppet master. It's a marionette strings And I
Speaker 2: asked myself right then and there, do I want to
Speaker 2: be in control or being told what to do? My
Speaker 2: whole life? The Godfather hadn't come out yet in later
Speaker 2: years when I saw it, it became the theme for
Speaker 2: my speaking engagements and the theme for lesson number one
Speaker 2: of the forty three lessons that everyone should read if
Speaker 2: they want a great career in the book. So what
Speaker 2: I say to you tonight is I talk about this.
Speaker 2: You want to be successful in your own business. You
Speaker 2: want to be successful in a company. The more you know,
Speaker 2: the better you'll be. If you understand all the components
Speaker 2: that it takes to getting your product out there, from development,
Speaker 2: inception to delivery, you will be in a position to
Speaker 2: make decisions. You'll be holding the strings rather than dangling
Speaker 2: at the bottom of them. And if there was ever
Speaker 2: a lesson, there's a reason why. In my book, chapter
Speaker 2: forty three, in case you forgot to pay attention, lesson
Speaker 2: number one is do you want to be the puppet
Speaker 2: master or the puppet? Having said this, I had fun
Speaker 2: talking to you tonight. Happy Thanksgiving week. I hope you
Speaker 2: all have sponderful times with your families and friends. As
Speaker 2: far as we're concerned, we touched on Thanksgiving a little.
Speaker 2: From my vantage point, I hope you got something from
Speaker 2: to Night Show, Good Night