Daniel Steven also known as Dan Peña, is an American businessman. He is a Billionaire who built up his wealth from scratch. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from San Fernando Valley State College in 1971. He is one of the world’s most wealthiest man.
Below are Inspirational Quotes From Dan Pena:
- The truth is, successful people are not ten times smarter than you. They don’t really work ten times harder than you. So why are they successful? Because their dreams are so much bigger than yours. Dan Pena
2. If you want to make more money, you’ll have to do things differently. You will have to do things you never even thought of doing in the past. You will have to do things out of your comfort zone. Dan Pena
3. The best form of customer service is self service. Constantly empower customers to get their own answers themselves. Dan Pena
4. Next time, you question what you are doing – ask yourself? What could I do more? In most cases, extra time will be the greatest leverage you can apply! Dan Pena
5. You would think that American educators would want our kids, especially our kids from poorer families, to hear what top-rated Oxford students hear. But you’d be wrong. American schools now hide their students from ideas like mine if they don’t approve of the man or the message. Dan Pena
6. The truth is, I almost always did accomplish what I said I would – in the face of overwhelming obstacles! Dan Pena
7. I could not be more proud of the countless lives that I have changed since I began my coaching and mentoring career! Dan Pena
8. A famous man once said, ‘A sure formula for failure is to try and please everyone.’ Some might say I built a career on doing just the opposite of pleasing everyone. Dan Pena
9. Entrepreneurship is enduring pain for a long time without relinquishing. Dan Pena
10. The Internet is a giant ‘lab experiment’ for corporate America, and those companies that recognise this and play well within the rules of ambiguity and fluidity will survive and win. Dan Pena
11. Entrepreneurship is enduring pain for a long time without relinquishing. Dan Pena
12. I coach my mentees to act as if they are invincible – to act as if they could accomplish anything! Dan Pena
13. Super-success is not for everyone, and you will endure weeks and months and years of hard work, obstacles, failures, victories, pain, and any manner of ‘negative’ experiences to reap the rewards of success, drink from the golden goblet, own the brass ring. Dan Pena
14. Jim Newman, the business visionary who created the term ‘comfort zone,’ showed me how to expand my horizons. Thanks to Jim, after I attended one of his PACE Seminars in 1978; I moved out of my comfort zone at Bear Stearns and became a super successful oilman. Dan Pena
15. Jerry Ormand was already a legendary Texas oilman when I met him. Yet he took the time to introduce me to the fine points of the oil business and how to survive and prosper amid the chaos of a rough-and-tumble industry. Dan Pena
16. Now, admittedly, my power of concentration is and always has been extraordinary since my army training! In fact, other people say it is legendary and almost cosmic! Dan Pena
17. I have always known I had talent, LOL, but to be called a ‘talent’ feels a little strange – but well within my comfort zone! Dan Pena
18. Remarkably successful people habitually do what other people won’t do. They go where others won’t go because there’s a lot less competition and a much greater chance for success. Dan Pena
19. As I have told many, the only goal my dad had for me was to keep me alive to reach the age of reason! He had no aspirations for me vis-a-vis education, wealth, or anything else! Dan Pena
20. The Internet has allowed even more growth possible than in the bricks and mortar industries that I dealt with years ago. It is easier to get a business to a million dollars/pounds in revenue on the net! It is not easy! But it is easier when compared to construction, etc., though all businesses use the Internet to enhance marketing. Dan Pena
21. I have said many times: We have self-esteem or don’t, based on how we were raised! Self-esteem is normally produced in your first 7-8 years of life. Dan Pena
22. It took me 8 years to graduate from undergraduate school because I kept ‘communism from your door steps’ for 3 1/2 years in between while serving in the U.S. Army. Dan Pena
23. Life without dreams is like a bird with a broken wing – it can’t fly. Dan Pena
24. I, like Don Quixote, have fought many a windmill. Dan Pena