A poll was conducted several years ago and they ( Oz himself ) looked for what was most  common in successful people’s lives. We’re not talking financially successful, although many people who are personally successful tend to be financially successful as well.
They immediately ruled out education & IQ but they did find that a higher percentage of people grew up [...]

In his book “Finding Hidden Treasures”, Nampa author Ron Price gives this definition of success:
“I think if we all were to strive for its (life’s) accomplishment, we would all lead much happier lives as well as live in an even better world!”  Here is another excerpt from his book: “H.G. Wells says that fame & fortune are [...]

In business as well as in life, there is probably no greater lesson that I have learned than to shut my mouth and stop talking when appropriate. Remember the phrase “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me?”  Who came up with that phrase? Broken bones eventually heal, but the wounds caused [...]

I was fortunate enough in my business career to have married not only a great woman, but a tremendous business partner. Lori, my wife of 28 years, has skimped, saved and managed our money since we were first married. Nobody has the same interest in the success of our business than the partner you live with. If I [...]

“I love my competitors, for they bring the best out of me” is a phrase that I have used for years. I hope the spirit of competition is alive and well in your industry. That’s America; that’s capitalism at its best. Few places outside of this great country still make it possible for the common man [...]

What is “success,” and how will you know when you have achieved it? I recently came across a very simple yet wonderful definition for the word success. What I like about this definition is that it really doesn’t matter what culture you are living in or what family you’ve been born into. In his book, “Finding Hidden Treasures”, Nampa [...]

I know this statement sounds silly, and some might even consider it gross! The only thing that’s gross about my ability to think outside the toilet is the amount of money that I was able to “gross” when I sold my business this year! Because I was able to think past my own “paradigm” of [...]

In the words of the great philosopher, Socrates: “I cannot give answers to anyone, I can only make them THINK!”

Abraham Lincoln once said that if he was given 8 hours to cut down a tree, he would spend six of those hours sharpening his axe! Wow! That’s good stuff!
How much time do you spend cutting down your own “trees” using a dull axe?  The harder you work, the more dull the axe gets!
One of [...]

From my autobiography in the works, “From the Outhouse to the White House,” Chapter 2 is titled, “Thinking Outside the Toilet.”  The title is deserved largely because my “thinking outside the toilet” method allowed me to find and operate one of the largest and most successful service companies in the nation!
As a businessman, I didn’t buy [...]