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Dave Thomas Finds a Mentor

Dave was an adopted child who dropped out of high school and drifted from one low-paying job to another. A loser? Not by a long shot. A mentor changed his life. While working at a barbecue restaurant in Fort Wayne, Indiana he met Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame. Sanders taught Dave what he knew about the restaurant business. In fact, Dave was so successful that he took four failing KFC restaurants, turned them around, and sold them back to the Colonel for $1.5 million dollars. By 1968, Dave Thomas was a millionaire without a even a high school diploma. But that didn?t stop him from opening his first restaurant, Wendy?s Old Fashioned Hamburgers in Columbus, named after his daughter. The restaurants now number 4,000. And it all started with having the right mentor. Finally, in 1993, he went back to receive his high school equivalency certificate. ? Copyright 2002 CK Miller - All Rights Reserved (Written from January 8, 2002, Chicago Tribune.)

Become Holy By Hanging Out With the Holy

The way to grow in holiness is to be around people more holy than ourselves. We hear their stray comments and absorb their judgment of what?s important. We listen to their prayers and find that God is bigger than we?d thought. -- Oswald Chambers

Newton Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. --Isaac Newton, scientist

On Borrowing Brains

I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow. -- Woodrow Wilson, former President of the United States

Getting Others to Do Better Than You

Leadership is both something you are and something you do. A mentor is not a person who can do the work better than his followers; he is a person who can get his followers to do the work better than he can. -- Fred Smith

Mentoring as a Kick in the Pants

Mentoring is a brain to pick, a shoulder to cry on, and a kick in the pants. -- John C. Crosby, The Uncommon Individual Foundation

President of GE on Mentoring

Back in the early 1950s, Ralph J. Cordiner, then president of General Electric, said that within three years after a chief executive takes over a company, he should have at least three people equally capable to succeed him. (Joe Griffith, Speaker's Library of Business Quotes)

How to Make a Company of Giants

In youth ministry, it's easy to only pull people into our ministry that are not as good as us at ministry. It makes us look good and keeps us from being intimidated. But David Ogilvy, the legendary adman and founder of Ogilvy & Mather, placed a Russian doll in front of each director?s chair. He told them, ?That?s you. Open it.? When they opened the doll, they found another one inside and another one inside of it. Inside the smallest doll was a note. ?If you always hire people who are smaller than you are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. If, on the other hand, you always hire people who are bigger than you are, we shall become a company of giants.? (Joe Griffith, Speaker's Library of Business Quotes)

Buffett on Mentoring

Warren Buffett is America's most successful investor. He said, ?The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.? (Warren Buffet quoted by Roger Lowenstein in ?Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist?) One of his mentors was Benjamin Graham, whose book "The Intelligent Investor" startled him with its wisdom. So he went to study under Graham, Graham offered Buffett a full-time job, and "For the next two years he poured his heart and soul into learning from the investment master, working late into the night and immersing himself in ever detail of a target company?s performance." (Reynolds, Simon, ed. Thoughts of Chairman Buffett, Harper Business, New York, NY: 1998.)

Who to be the Batboy For

Warren Buffett, America's greatest investory, said, ?The key in life is to figure out who to be the batboy for.? Warren Buffett in ?Broadcasting? June 9, 1986

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