Judy: Let’s see; What do you do? .....
Do you like what you do?
Ray: Absolutely. I’m a very wealthy man. I don’t HAVE TO work.
Judy: Right - (laughing)
And how long have you been doing this?
Ray: Four years.
Judy: And is your work important?
Ray: Very important. I think it’s extending health to many many
I also have a strong desire to help people lift themselves up
Stress is one of the biggest reasons for health maladies, so I
Judy: Then the kids would probably ask, “How do you do that?” (Of course I gotta laugh again here.....It's just me!)
Ray: By tellin’ people. Sharin’ the good news. Just like
Judy: And is there anything else that you think kids would like
Ray: I think kids are not bein’ taught in the educational system
So I think the kids need to be told, "Look at owning your own
He was right about that; Thom Hartmann wrote about this sort of
And my grandfather (a definite entrepreneur) used to tell us kids,
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You’ve already told me that.
So there’s got to be a reason why I’m here. I don’t HAVE TO be
here. I have MILLIONS of dollars put away, an’ I make millions
again - every year, whether I work or not. So I have to like
what I’m doin’ or I wouldn’t be here.
folks. I think it’s extending to people an opportunity for
optimal health via nutrition that just was not available to them
before. And I very much like the fact that our company has
chosen to be highly scientific, doin’ clinical trials, peer
review papers, abstracts, things like that. So, yeah, I think
that by the turn of the century it could very well be considered
to be the most important company that ever occurred in America
because of the health it extends to people.
financially, which can be done with this opportunity. And I
think the biggest disease in this country it “Lack of money.”
I think it’s causin’ a lot of problems. It’s the biggest reason
for divorce, it’s the biggest reason for stress.
think the biggest disease in America is “Lack-of-money-itis.”
And I’m helping people to get past that.
Christ said, "Go share the Good News." He didn’t say we ever
have to convert anybody. He just said to get in their face an’
share the Good News. So that’s what I’m doin’; gettin’ in
people’s faces an’ I’m sharin’ the good news, an’ they’re
benefittin’. My job’s just to share the good news.
to know about your work?
today the benefits of entrepreneurship, of havin’ their own
business, of controllin’ their own destiny. I think they’re
bein’ taught to be a part of the corporate world, working for
somebody else, and I think that’s misleading. I think the
corporate world has let us down immensely in the last 10-15 years.
They’ve dumped all kinds of people. They’ve downsized for the
sake of the bottom line - even if they’re profitable. They
downsize to be even more profitable.
business;" right from an early age. Y’know they’re NOT going to
get it in the educational system. They don’t teach you that.
They teach you to work for the man. So I would like to tell kids,
"Learn how to have your own business. It’s OK to work for the
man, but ultimately have your own business going, so that you
control your own destiny."
thing in schools, in his book, Beyond ADD.
"It's better to be in business for yourself than to work for somebody else;
even if all you do is sell shoestrings on the corner."
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