Mario Harik

And ultimately, the goal of a company is to create shareholder value.

And these companies have created a tremendous amount of shareholder value.

So I learned from him, now everything you read in the book is actually part of the framework in terms of how you think about one, setting very big goals for business, thinking outside of the box of how you can deliver a large amount of value.

And number two is actually, now in our case and the case of the companies he has built, a lot of it, the early innings was around M&A and M&A integration and how you allocate capital in a very effective way where you buy a company at a lower multiple than what your company is trading at.

but a company that has a good strategic outcome for what you are trying to build as well.

But if I go back to what I learned from him, I mean, I learned a tremendous amount in more than a decade, but probably number one I would say is to always think big.

Don't set small goals.

Life is short.

Set big goals, whether it's how much value you're creating, whether how much profits you're growing, whether a certain project that you think needs three years to get done and how you can get it done in three months.

Set big goals and do that at work.

Do that in your personal life.

Because when you set big goals, you achieve great things.

If you set small goals, you achieve small things.

And that's probably the number one thing I learned from him.

Number two, I would say is actually how you manage people, how you actually, who you surround yourself with, and to have a very disciplined approach to look at the people who are around you.

That you have a team, because ultimately in business, you don't go at it alone.

You have a group of people and you want them to work collegially as a team, as a group of people who support each other.

who want to, following a certain strategy, a certain framework, wanna go achieve great things, wanna beat the competition, wanna win.

And effectively, how you surround yourself with people, how you actually create a team environment that is very constructive,

how you get feedback loops.