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About Me

A natural all-rounder with a proven track record in business start ups to troubleshooting when things go wrong. Having cut my teeth in an international trading environment with a major listed company, I then became a troubleshooter (think James Bond without the gadgets!) using my resourcefulness and tenacity to mitigate financial loss. This led me to the world of international trade finance and banking and, following a major career change in the early nineties, to estate agency where I thrive on creating opportunity and income in what has now become an extremely challenging sector.

Location:
United Kingdom, London
Current organization:
Lurot Brand Ltd
Current role:
Manager - Marylebone Branch
Gender:
Male
Associations:
The National Association of Estate Agents
My website links:
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Excelling in all things that I do.

An idea worth spreading

The movie "Pay it Forward" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_It_Forward inspires me. It is a tremendous idea where someone does a favour for someone else and that person then pays a favour forward in a pyramid scheme.

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    A comment on Conversation: Will Automation Lead to Economic Collapse?

    Sep 24 2012: The economy has already collapsed! Automation has speeded up the process!!

  • A comment on Conversation: What motivates you?

    Sep 24 2012: The quest to achieve an understanding of all that is.
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    A comment on Conversation: Do you find it difficult to engage in intellectual conversations with people in general?

    Sep 18 2012: You probably just need to find some mental stimulation elsewhere. People generally are too consumed with living their mostly very ordinary lives to focus on anything other than trivia. One only has to see the high viewing figures for soap operas on TV and game shows to understand that this is probably what the population can best understand.

    I enjoy debating and discussing a range of subjects from the origins of the universe to how society functions and can also understand why people feel that trivia enables them to avoid the subjects which would otherwise prove too challenging to discuss.

  • A comment on Conversation: What will be the best renewable source of energy in 2050?

    Aug 9 2012: I am not impressed.

  • A comment on Conversation: What will be the best renewable source of energy in 2050?

    Aug 9 2012: How would you know?

  • A comment on Conversation: What will be the best renewable source of energy in 2050?

    Aug 9 2012: At least I have one!
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    A comment on Conversation: How to build our future without destroying the Earth ?

    Aug 8 2012: By colonising other planets. Industrialisation has been shown to destroy the environment. Just look at the mess China is in as they become industrialised. The UK had its industrial revolution and now we import our needs from China and other countries. The Earth will not be destroyed by human beings although we will probably do a good job at destroying ourselves and other fauna and flora in the meantime. The Earth will continue: its been going over four billion years! Humans have been around for a mere 200,000 years. It is our nature to breed and to consume all available resources and then move on to greener pastures. As the greener pastures get eaten up we will end up being forced to colonise other planets to mine their resources and so on.....Without colonisation of other planets the Earth will simply end up stripped mined of all commodities and when this happens the population will naturally decrease due to wars over the remaining resources until what is left of the population is in balance with the environment. The cycle will start again most probably.

  • A comment on Conversation: What will be the best renewable source of energy in 2050?

    Aug 8 2012: I imagine that we will use the same sources but more sparingly!

  • A comment on Conversation: If the universe is expanding - what is it expanding into?

    Aug 8 2012: It is expanding into itself I would say and, one day, as I understand it, it will collapse.

  • A comment on Conversation: What is the most effective way to stimulate growth in developing nations?

    Jul 24 2012: To stimulate growth in developing countries it is necessary for governments to invest in infrastructure. It is only with adequate infrastructure that a country will develop since power, water, transport etc will form the building blocks to growth. After that, it is the turn of entrepreneurs to form businesses in order to make and sell things. The infrastructure projects will provide some local employment and the businesses will provide employment which will enable the employees to buy things from other businesses which in turn allows those businesses to grow. China is an interesting model as the population has gradually gravitated to cities where jobs have been created and tremendous growth has been seen.

    At the end of the day, growth is a factor of manufacturing and selling things to people who may or may not really need them. It is also interesting to see that growth is fuelled by demand. Take away the demand and growth stalls and we end up in recession!
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