Lesko’s Philosophy On Getting Government
Money
“Make Sure You DON’T Know What
You’re Doing”
That’s what I keep telling my staff. Because
in today’s world if you really believe that
you know what you are doing you are going to wind
up being out of business. It means you are playing
it too safe. Whatever worked in the past is not
likely to work in the future. You have to continue
to keep trying new things. And I mean things that
you have no idea will work or not. The world constantly
changes and if you don’t keep changing with
it, you will be out of business or out of a job.
Nobody really knows what they’re doing in
life. We are all guessing, even the experts. And
the sooner we admit that the better off we will
be. So go out there and make sure your DON’T
know what you’re doing. This isn’t
brain surgery - it’s just life.
USA Millionaires Are Entrepreneurs...
Millionaires in this country are not those people
we see on TV driving expensive cars and living
in big fancy expensive homes, according to the
book “The Millionaire Next Door” by
two PhD’s Stanley and Deanko. Their data
show that only about 3.5% of the country have $1
million or more in assets to fit this category
and these people have the following characteristics:
- 80% made the money themselves and did not inherit
it,
- 2/3rds of those working are self-employed,
- they’ve worked in same business for over
20 years and it is likely to be a dull business
like pest controller or paving contractor (all
those instant dotcom millionaires are now broke),
- they wear inexpensive suits and drive late-model
American cars, and
- they are more likely to have a Sears or J.C.
Penny credit card than a Saks or Nieman Marcus
card.
Failure Is Better Than Doing Nothing...
“Far better it is to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered
by failure, than to take rank with those poor
spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer too much,
because they live in the gray twilight that knows
not victory nor defeat. "
-- Theodore Roosevelt
You Can’t Buy Magic, You Have To Make Your
Own...
Salesmen like me, will have you believe that
there is something magical in the way we earned
our success and that if you buy something from
us you will be able to buy some of the magic
that made us successful. But it’s not true.
You can’t buy someone else’s magic.
We all have our own magic. We are all special
in some unique way. It is our job to find what
our own creative uniqueness is and share it with
the world. You have your own magic. It is your
job to find it.
You Don’t Need Credentials...
Brian Williams, heir apparent to Tom Brokow
at NBC News attended George Washington University
but never finished.
Harrison Ford, the actor from Star Wars, Indiana
Jones and the current K-19, attended Ripon College
but never finished.
Milton Friedman who won a Nobel Prize in Economics
flunked his qualifying exam to work in insurance.
Fear Less Audits...
You can take the fear out of any audit by seeing
what the auditor is going to look for when they
come to audit you. You can get copies of the IRS’s
own In-House Auditing Manuals. These are the guidelines
that the IRS auditors have to follow when they
come to audit you. It’s like getting the
test ahead of time. But because of the government’s
own Freedom of Information Act, this is now legal.
You can receive a listing of all available audit
manuals by sending a SASE (self addressed stamped
envelope) to Internal Revenue Service,
Attn: Freedom of Information,
c/o Ben Franklin Station,
P.O. Box 795, Washington,
DC 20004, 202-622-5164.
If you want to look at some non-secret manuals
available go to www.irs.gov/taxpros.
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