My dad was in the life insurance business, so I learned about selling when I was about 14 because I started working as a secretary.
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I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.
My first job ever was selling balloons with my brother at parades when I was about six years old. My father wanted us to learn about money, how to make it, save it, spend it, etc.
I started my first business at 14!
My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.
Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.
I used to run record companies, and I went to the advertising business at 29 years old.
I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.
As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.
From a relatively early age I got interested in business.
Like many entrepreneurs, I started out in sales. I began at 14, when I got a job selling shoes and tennis rackets at a pro shop, and I've been selling one thing or another ever since.