Todd Bellemare

… be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination … you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live.

If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.

Thanks to emptiness, everything is possible.

If you want it, and the more you keep hearing you can’t have it, you just go and get it

No matter where you are in life, you’ll save a lot of time by not worrying too much about what other people think about you. The earlier in your life that you can learn that, the easier the rest of it will be.

I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don’t misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.

Due diligence equals increasing your financial IQ daily.

It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

Unite to win. Divide to conquer.

You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

Seek not outside yourself for success lies within.

Selling is essentially a transfer of feelings.

Stay Strong.

Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

There were no role models, there were no other people I knew who were dealing with the same issues that I was dealing with. I had no idea if this was a stage I was going through or not. But I go to the draft board in Brooklyn and I fill out the form and there was a question that said ‘Do you have homosexual tendencies?’ and I check yes. But where-ever I was on line I’d see people I went to high school with and I was afraid of anyone knowing this about me so I kept on falling back into line and falling back into line. If you said you had homosexual tendencies they sent you to a psychiatrist. He said ‘I see here you’ve checked the box?’ And I said ‘yup’. He said ‘So do you think you’d have a problem serving in the armed forces?’ I said well you know ‘So many men.’ And I was out of the service.