Greek Business Success Stories: Jason Pappas from EntreQuest

Seventh Shot Success For Entrepreneur

In our series of posts entitled “Greek Business Success Stories” we are presenting business success stories from Greece as well as from Greek enrepreneurs who are living and thriving abroad.

Why we are presenting these stories? Because as Robert Kiyosaki says: ” If nothing comes to your mind on how you can get rich by working for free, keep pushing your reality or begin investing some time and education into studying the lives of people who became successful and rich in the “B” and “I” quadrants.

Indeed, by studying the success stories of the other people we are increasing our own drive for starting our own businesses, begin investing, etc. That drive is even bigger when the success stories comes from Greek people. That’s the main reason on why we present Greek Business Success Stories.

Below is the business success story of Jason Pappas from EntreQuest. His story is interesting becauce he made it only in his seventh business endeavor. This affirms rich dad’s statement that: ” Failure is part of the winning”.

“Jason Pappas, 39, is co-founder/CEO of EntreQuest, a Baltimore-based sales consulting company. He grew up in North Baltimore, went to Gilman School, Yale University and the University of Maryland School of Law.

However, Pappas decided he wasn’t a lawyer but rather a “serial entrepreneur.” In his own quest to create a successful business, Pappas tried his hand at real estate investment, property management, owning a driving range and starting a golf apparel company, among other things. EntreQuest was “one-for-seven.”

Q: What made No. 7 work?

A: Honestly? A phenomenal partner. [Joe Mechlinski] is 10 years younger than I am. … We’re very similar from a core standpoint, but our tactical strengths are different. He’s much more detail-oriented compared to me. The other thing is – we know how to fight really well. … [We] never make it personal.

Q: You describe yourself as a “serial entrepreneur.” What do you think it is about you that drives you that direction?

A: It’s clearly a control issue. I need to control. I’m totally comfortable with the uncertainty and the risk. But, I’ve gotta be the one holding the dice.

Source: Baltimore Sun

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Real Life Success Stories from Real Life Greek people who Followed the Rich Dad Lessons     

                                                                     

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Lazaros Lazaros Grekos from Australia attended a 2-days seminar conducted by the Rich Dad’s Advisor on Sales & Communications and author of two books of the Rich Dad’s Advisors series (SalesDogs & Building a Business Team that Wins–Blair Singer) and the following week raised $35 million from investors for his deal!!! Learn how Lazaros got out of the rat race.