My Favorites
My Favorite place to clear my head: Arlington Cemetery. My Dad and father-in-law are both at rest there.
Favorite Movie: It’s a Wonderful Life
Favorite Movie 2: Shawshank Redemption
Favorite Line From the TV show “Seinfeld: ‘I’m out’
Favorite late night activity: Doing thousand piece jigsaw puzzles with my kids.
Favorite afternoon activity in the summer: Walking the fairways at the Old Course in Hot Springs,VA with my 11 year old daughter and getting educated about ‘things’
Favorite Sports Activity: Coaching my 13 year old daughter and her 7th grade CYO girls basketball team and getting an education about ‘life’.
Best lesson learned in corporate America: Surround yourself with 200 people or 20,000 people who share your vision, your passion, your conviction, your integrity and are aligned with you on the common enemy. Nothing is more powerful.
Best late day summer activity: Crabbing and hearing ‘true but over-embellished’ stories of my father-in-law on 53rd street on Long Beach Island while having a ‘cold drink’
Haunting Memory as a child: As a 12 year old watching a plane crash into my baseball field in Fairview Park OH. I didn’t stop running for 2 days.
#1 Best advice given to me: My father ‘You get two things in life, your health and your reputation—don’t screw either of them up”
#2 Best advice: “Its easier to sit down –than it is to stand up”. Translated for my kids—do what is right, not what is easy.
Favorite Speech: Man in the Arena- Theodore Roosevelt 1910
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
A label I got that I love. “You’re a bit unorthodox for a Controller’.
My recent favorite Google Page – Reading the Top 100 American Speeches in the 21st Century by Rank Order-
www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html
Greatest joy: My teenage kids think I am still pretty cool and fun to be around
If people only know: My wife’s impersonations are ‘killer’
Most appreciative time: 8 years with a front row seat building a great company with 20,000 fellow 'doers'.
People who I have heard of that I want to meet: Moshi, Joe the Rag Man, POD, Jose Grecko, Two Pack, Rooti, Captain Happy
My Favorite Lunch: At the counter at Silver Diner having a bowl of soup with Dick L.
People who inspire me: entrepreneurs
My pledge in 2009: I’ll make an honest effort to thank and shake the hand of every police officer, EMT, and fireman I come across.
