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Let’s what’s talk about persistence and The Founder. Hi I’m Brian Pombo welcome back to the Orange Office in Grants Pass Oregon, where once again we’re going to have a nice little chat that we call Brian J. Pombo Live.
This is the third in an installment all about the movie, The Founder, about Ray Crock. This is the actual Ray Kroc, a picture of him, not Michael Keaton who did an excellent job in the film, but film took a very negative slant on Ray Crock.
And I wanted to be able to bring out some concepts out of the film that I think were kind of put in there, tongue in cheek, but I think it’s good stuff in there. So in the film they show this guy who’s very desperate, the salesman who’s trying to break out and who’s listening to, basically self-development records, something similar to Earl Nightingale, something of that sort. I believe it’s a made up record that he was listening to.
I don’t think it was a real, it was an actual one, but it was built off of and what was being said is the type of things that you would hear of self improvement recordings of the day.
One of the areas where I think he’s shaving or something while he’s listening to this and it’s this quote on persistence and I just wanted to read it to you because I think it’s a good quote. And they have it in there during a little montage and they do it a couple of times during the movie. First time he’s just kind of listening to it in the background. Second time he’s added it to a speech that he’s giving, kind of showing that this guy likes to steal things from other people type of thing.
And it’s kind of the theme of the movie. But I want you to actually listen to the quote because it’s based off of a Calvin Coolidge quote, which is also really good. But I’m going to read this quote from the movie.
It says, Persistence. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent won’t, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius won’t ,unrewarded genius is practically a cliche. Education won’t. The world is full of educated fools.
Persistence and Determination alone are all powerful.
Show that you don’t have to be defeated by anything, that you can have. Peace of mind, improved health and a never ceasing flow of energy. If you attempt each and every day to achieve these things, the results will make themselves obvious to you.
While it may sound like a magical notion, it is in you to create your own future.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind or as Ralph Waldo Emerson, “declared a man is what he thinks about all day long.”
There’s a lot of great stuff in there.
The one area I want to point to is persistence and how that relates back to the life of Ray Kroc. Ray Kroc was in his fifties by the time he actually got around to getting involved with the McDonald brothers and taking their franchising and putting it into, you know, high gear I guess you could say. And because of that, that’s what made him a legend in business.
It’s just that one situation when a lot of people would have felt like they were washed up or felt like there was no way to be able to do anything from that point forward. He kept going.
It’s all about persistence.
If you don’t have that attitude in place, you’re going to have a tough time getting over the next hurdle.
So if you’re in a spot, if you’re a business owner, I’m sure you’ve already have some success. You’ve reached a point to where you’ve done well. But if you’re looking to go a little bit further, if you’re a business owner or an executive that’s in the self-reliance field, you’re someone that I’d like to talk to. Go to DreamBizChat.com the link is in the description and there’s a video there I’d like you to watch. Go Watch it.
It’s eight and a half minutes long. It’s not that long. Watch it. Tell me what you think, see if it fits you. And if it does, fill out the application and we’ll maybe get a chance to talk. If it doesn’t and if you don’t like the video, leave a comment, let me know.
I’d love to hear what you think. That’s DreamBizChat.com. That’s it for today. Nice quick and simple one. All on persistence. And this will end our story on The Founder.
I’ll go back and make references to this movie again because I think this movie has a lot of little gems hidden in it, whether the producers meant to have him in there or not, it has a lot of lessons about business in it. So onto the next thing tomorrow, I’m going to be a complete surprise, but we’ll see you then. In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.