Gary Carmell
David Ogilvy was the founder of the legendary advertising firm Ogilvy & Mather. He is considered one of the great executives and thought leaders in the history of advertising. He served as the inspiration for the character of Don Draper in Mad Men.
Ogilvy was born in 1911 to an upper-class British Family and was admitted to Oxford but was expelled for poor academic performance.
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Gary Carmell
Last Thursday was CWS’ National Day of Caring. Each region of the country identifies community service projects for our associates to volunteer at in two-hour increments. I worked at a food bank in Orange County. I was part of an assembly line comprised of CWS employees packing boxes for individuals and families at risk of hunger.
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Gary CarmellCWS Capital Partners is a real estate investment management firm that was founded in 1969. We own operate, manage and develop in excess of 20,000 apartment units throughout the country primarily in the Sunbelt, with a value, at the time of this writing , in excess of $7 billion dollars.
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Gary Carmell
Tennis legend Rafael Nadal announced his retirement last week. He was the embodiment of the warrior ethos and was taught from a very young age that everything he did was intended to strengthen his endurance, as I will soon show.
A few years ago,
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Gary Carmell
Last week was the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah. The Rabbi of my synagogue asked me if I would do a teaching related to Rosh Hashanah. He said it didn’t need to be more than two or three minutes.
In the spirit of Mark Twain,
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Gary Carmell
It’s been five weeks since my back surgery and I’ve been doing my best to follow instructions from my doctor and physical therapist to lay off tennis and other strenuous activities for at least six weeks. And while I have generally adhered to their advice,
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Gary Carmell
There’s an old joke about economists that asks what happens when you put 10 economists in a room. You get 10 opinions. Well, in predicting whether the Fed would cut the Federal Funds Rate by 25 basis points or 50 basis points, they were virtually unanimous in their opinion,
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Gary Carmell
I saw a clip of a recent interview with Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google and worth more than $100 billion. He was being interviewed in front of a live audience. The first question he was asked was how much time he was spending at Google.
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Gary Carmell
“Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendships a fine art, drink deeply from good books—especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings, and pray for guidance every day.”
John Wooden
Every so often,
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Gary Carmell
Pain can come in many forms beyond just the physical. And the root cause of some physical pain can also be emotional. I know a lot of Oasis fans have been in pain ever since that fateful backstage row in Paris in 2009 when Noel Gallagher finally had enough of being in the same band with his younger brother Liam and called it quits right then and there.
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