How to Be Happy (and Lucky) on the Road to Success with Terry Rich | Ep. 44
Terry Rich is a disruptive innovator and entrepreneur with a drive for integrity and honesty. He’s worked in the trenches, survived the new business trends and had success with generational changes. Oh, and he’s given away over one billion dollars.
Show Notes
[00:15] Welcome to this episode of the big possible show. It's time to welcome the fraud-busting, creative and lucky Terry Rich.
[01:05] How Terry started in radio and television and began in cable television.
[01:39] At age 40, Terry found out that someone came in to cash his company. It was a heck of a deal and prompted him to think that happiness happens on the way to success.
[02:03] And so at that point, he decided to start his own company.
[04:00] Terry’s story of how he achieved an impossible goal
[05:30] How Terry failed 43 of the 44 times, But he got a call from a guy from United press and lo and behold, he got a call from the Carson show, Johnny Carson's Tonight show.
[07:03] How he found it's better to have tried and failed than to succeed at doing nothing
[08:50] Terry’s story of turning poo at the zoo into massive profit
[10:21] Everybody has that million-dollar idea for him. He keeps a list of six things on a piece of paper at night when he goes to bed, he looks them over,
[11:30] Terry’s philosophy on luck and how he says “I’m ready to conquer the world. And so I think it's a mental thing that happens with luck and when you do have success, you find ways to pump yourself up, to be able to take that next step”
[14:00] Never judge. Every idea is a good idea. Write them all down, put them all on the bushel basket.
[15:30] You can dream all you want about the best idea, but until you do it, you're not going to make any money.
[18:23] Terry’s life lesson: happiness happens on the way to success. So enjoy life as it is.
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Website: https://www.terryspeaks.com
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