It's only rock n roll but I like it...

Yesterday, I went and saw the Rolling Stones IMAX movie "Shine A Light" directed by Martin Scorsese. The movie rocked as did the Stones.

These guys are still incredible and the energy they exhibit at sixty plus years of age puts the new rock "stars' to shame.

There were two interested points in the movie that directly relate to business....actually three:

1. These guys clearly LOVE what they are doing. They don't want to be doing anything else. They LOVE it. This is a prime example of people turning their "passion into profits."

2. A clip was shown of a twenty something Mick Jagger being asked if he could see himself doing concerts at sixty years old. Without hesitation, he answered, "Yes, absolutely." Although he didn't know how how successful the band would be or if they would be around that long, he knew that is what he wanted to be doing.

3. Keith Richards was asked, "Who do you think is a better guitarist, you or Ronnie Wood?" (Ronnie Wood emphatically said he was, which did not surprise Keith.) Keith thought for a moment and then said, "Alone we are both pretty much crap but together we are better than any ten guys." That is a VERY powerful observation. The lesson is to surround yourself with people who make you better.

Rock on mi amigos, rock on...

~Dave Dee

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