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	Would you respect a man who came to the United States as a teenager with no knowledge of English, no contacts and only $50 in his pocket, yet ended up a multimillionaire? Would you listen to what he has to say about success? Meet Nido Qubein, who is chairman of an international consulting firm and recipient of the highest awards given for professional speakers, including the Cavett (known as the Oscar of professional speaking) and the Speakers Hall of Fame. Toastmasters International named him the Top Business and Commerce Speaker and awarded him the Golden Gavel Medal. He served as president of the National Speakers Association, which has a membership of 4,000 professionals. Nido has been the recipient of many honors including the Ellis Island Congressional Medal of Honor, a Doctorate of Laws degree, and induction into Beta Gamma Sigma, the honor society for business leadership. Nidos business savvy led him to help start a bank in 1986 and today he serves on the board of a Fortune 500 financial corporation with 55 billion dollars in assets, 17,000 employees and over 1,000 offices in nine states. He serves on the boards of 17 universities, companies, and community organizations, including all three of his alma maters.
GS:	How did you get started in your current line of work?
NQ:	I was a college student working hard to pay my way through school when people started inviting me to come to their churches and schools and speak about the Holy Land, where I grew up. After graduation, I published a few learning materials and sold them by mail. People started buying them and inviting me to come and speak at small events about leadership. One thing led to another; by 1978, I was doing some 300 dates a year across the country with the help of people like Ben Franklin and Dupree Jordan.
GS:	What were the 3 biggest obstacles you had to overcome?
NQ:	1. Learning the English language and adjusting to a new country while I worked my way through college. 2. Dealing with the anguish I've felt throughout my life since my father died when I was six years of age and my mother brought us up. 3. Keeping the faith through a very difficult time for my family when my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer three years ago.
GS:	The famous book As a Man Thinketh by James Allen tells us when we "Conquer doubt and fear.we conquer failure." Let me ask you.What is the biggest thing you do to help you conquer doubt and fear?
NQ:	The biggest thing I do to help me conquer doubt and fear is to analyze precisely what it is that I am afraid of and what risks might I face if it came to be. Then faithfully and with tenacity, I attempt to deal with every risk and prepare a solid strategy to minimize its impact. Sometimes, I look back over past times when I may have encountered such experiences and I remind myself how I dealt with them and that I survived in the end.
GS:	What 2 books have influenced you the most? Why?
NQ:	You guessed it: The Holy Bible, which is the all-inclusive source for anything one needs to know to survive and thrive, several of Norman Vincent Peale's books and We Are The Beloved, by Ken Blanchard.
GS:	What is your greatest Bill Gove story you could share with our readers?
NQ:	There are many Bill Gove stories that I could share, but the lasting experience that I will always remember about Bill deals with his ability to" set up" each of his performances utilizing people in the audience. On numerous occasions, for example, at the National Speakers Association, I would be recruited by Bill to ask a question or to say something that would set him up for a terrific comeback. He used to tell the story about the tightrope walker and he would set us all up to say out loud something like "How tight was it?" and he'd come back with some fabulous zinger.
GS:	You have already made your first million. What advice can you give the rest of us who may still be looking to make our first million?
NQ:	It isn't how much you've made or even how much you've kept but, rather, how much you've given and how much you've invested in the lives of others that really matters. Success is easy. Significance is what each of us ought to aim to achieve. Success is not a matter of luck, or a reward for virtue, or an accident of birth. Ted Turner might say success is building a media empire. Donald Trump might say success is making a lot of money. Hank Aaron might say success is beating the record of Babe Ruth. Albert Einstein might say success is unraveling the secrets of the universe. But Mother Teresa might say success is helping the needy and the poor in the streets of Calcutta. The longer I live, the more I recognize that fans, fame, and fortune are not the key to fulfillment. Your faith in God, the unconditional love of your family, and the unending support of your friends are precisely the things one needs to carry him or her through times of adversity and into environments of abundance. So, in summary, I would say that what each of us has to do is focus on value and not focus on generating income. An amazing axiom about life: The more value we create, the more income we seem to generate.
GS:	How importantly would you rank mental toughness and the ability to communicate as it relates to your success and why?
NQ:	If what you mean by mental toughness is that we have to persevere and be committed and passionate about what we do, then there is no question in my mind that mental toughness is a cornerstone for success in any field. To communicate effectively and to connect with people are at the very heart of any lasting and consistent achievement for any person. The law of identification says something of great value: Once something becomes personal, it then becomes important. Our job, if we are to get the attention and the interest of those we want to persuade, is to make what we say personal and valuable to those who would hear it
GS:	If you had to start over again.what would you NOT do again?
NQ:	If I had to start over again, I would not spend so much time (as I did in the early days of my career) attempting to entertain an audience and I would have focused much more quickly on providing wisdom, knowledge, and useful information to my audience. My career has evolved: Now I give measurable tools for growth and development for individuals and businesses. I ensure that I have no empty words in presentations by editing unmercifully what I say and by always asking this question: "How useful is this material to this audience?" If what I say does not pass the usefulness test, I'll delete it and replace it with something more useful.
GS:	What is the reason most people don't achieve their major goals and dreams?
NQ:	The reason, it seems to me, that most people don't achieve their major goals and dreams is because they do not have a clear vision of what it is they want to achieve, because they do not set out a solid strategy to make their goals achievable; they do not invest themselves in practical systems that will help them achieve their goals, and they do not pursue their goals with consistent execution.

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