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Daniel Steven Peña Sr. (born August 10, 1945) is an American businessman. He is an American born philanthropist, entrepreneur, and the world’s most successful high-performance business coach.
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He is an accomplished high-performance business coach who has moved his mentees from 7 to 11 figures in their businesses.
These famous sayings by Dan Pena talks about striving to be successful amidst criticism, hardships, and consequences. They will inspire you to hustle, work hard, and achieve success in life.
Top 10 Dan Pena Quotes For Success
- “Tough times don’t last – tough people do!” – Dan Peña
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“Cash only prolongs death. It doesn’t avoid it.” – Dan Peña
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“Don’t waste time on things you can’t change!” – Dan Peña
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“Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.” – Dan Peña
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“If you want things to change, first you have to change.” – Dan Peña
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“The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself!” – Dan Peña
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“Don’t focus on mistakes; focus on the positive next time.” – Dan Peña
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“Don’t under any circumstances, ever, second guess yourself.” – Dan Peña
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“I’ve never seen a ‘part-time’ super successful, high-performance person.” – Dan Peña
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“Your most valuable natural asset is your own gut instinct. Don’t be afraid of it. your instinct has more power than all of the conventional wisdom in the world.” – Dan Peña
Famous Dan Pena Quotes
- “Just do it!” – Dan Peña
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“Man plans – God Laughs!” – Dan Peña
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“Dream big, Think big, Be big.” – Dan Peña
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“A deal is either hot – or it’s not.” – Dan Peña
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“Feeling anxious is the key to growth.” – Dan Peña
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“A deal has to sound good before it is good.” – Dan Peña
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“The older you get the less you are surprised.” – Dan Peña
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“Man’s greatest burden is unfulfilled potential.” – Dan Peña
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“Hunger makes beasts of men and demons of beasts.” – Dan Peña
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“The more you investigate, the less you have to invest.” – Dan Peña
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“The only difference between a Champ and a Chump is ‘U’.” – Dan Peña
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“It is my ambition to say in four words what others say in a book.” – Dan Peña
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“Success starts with you being comfortable being uncomfortable!” – Dan Peña
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“I may be wrong, but I am never in doubt!” – Dan Peña
Famous Quotes By Dan Peña
- “A high-performance person uses his fear to galvanize his actions.” – Dan Peña
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“All you need is the desire, passion, and will to fulfill your dreams!” – Dan Peña
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“Quantum Leap success means fishing with nets, not just with lines.” – Dan Peña
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“Any problem solved will be replaced immediately by a larger more complicated one!” – Dan Peña
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“We cannot change the past, only recover from it. And perhaps learn its cruel lessons.” – Dan Peña
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“I do what you don’t want to do that you know you’ve got to do to be where you want to be.” – Dan Peña
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“I can guarantee you, you will never achieve anything greater than your highest aspiration.” – Dan Peña
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“Always shoot for the moon. Even if you don’t hit the bulls-eye, you’ll at least get 80 percent.” – Dan Peña
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“Fear of failure is caused by lack of self-esteem and confidence. Dealing with fear is the key to super success.” – Dan Peña
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“Realists are brutally honest with themselves… yet they still have an unwavering belief that they will prevail…” – Dan Peña
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“The difference between me and a lot of you here is that I have no fears. Once you become fearless, life becomes limitless.” – Dan Peña
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“Don’t just work longer hours, ‘staying busy’ as most other people do. ‘Work smart’ — i.e. Stay productive and don’t get distracted.” – Dan Peña
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“We must all remember life doesn’t have to be fair for us to succeed if we take change and become masters and creators of our own destiny!” – Dan Peña
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“Year-end goals are terrific! Affirmations with goals are even better! And goals, affirmations, along with visualization is even more effective!” – Dan Peña
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“Never start small where goals are concerned. You’ll make better decisions – and find it much easier to work a lot harder – when your ultimate goal is the ultimate success.” – Dan Peña
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“If you want to make more money, you’ll have to do things differently. You will have to do things you never even thought of doing in the past. You will have to do things out of your comfort zone.” – Dan Peña
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“Are you willing to work 100 hours weeks? Are you willing to not go on vacation for 3 years? Would you work on your anniversary? Would you celebrate Christmas in January because of business? I have.” – Dan Peña
Inspirational Quotes By Dan Pena
- “Don’t be a loser.” – Dan Peña
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“Ask and you shall receive.” – Dan Peña
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“Never ever share your doubts.” – Dan Peña
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“Stop playing to lose. Play to win.” – Dan Peña
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“You have to have faith in people.” – Dan Peña
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“Hard work is the answer for everything.” – Dan Peña
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“Progress often masquerades as trouble.” – Dan Peña
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“People that read books don’t take action!” – Dan Peña
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“We’re all self-made, but only successful people admit it.” – Dan Peña
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“You can’t have a dream come true unless you have a dream.” – Dan Peña
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“We are only as emotionally strong as our deepest/biggest secret!” – Dan Peña
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“High-performance people take action quickly and change their mind slowly!” – Dan Peña
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“The road to success is always under construction… there are lots of potholes but no traffic jams.” – Dan Peña
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“The difference between a failure and a high-performance individual is how each deals with fear. We are all afraid.” – Dan Peña
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“I could not be more proud of the countless lives that I have changed since I began my coaching and mentoring career!” – Dan Peña
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“People with low self-esteem protect themselves by not taking risks. High self-esteem gives you the power of confidence to take chances.” – Dan Peña
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“As I have said many times – no one loves me as much as I love myself! And if you can’t really love yourself, you can’t love anything you do!” – Dan Peña
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“I have said countless times high-performance people are never satisfied with what they do or how they do it! Hence, I am always endeavoring to improve.” – Dan Peña
Best Motivaional Dan Pena Quotes
- “All my life, I was always in a hurry! I was always hustling!” – Dan Peña
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“Life without dreams is like a bird with a broken wing – it can’t fly.” – Dan Peña
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“Don’t set time limits for achieving goals. They should transcend time.” – Dan Peña
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“High-performance people have larger, more expanded comfort zones than most!” – Dan Peña
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“Once you learn to make money, it is not that hard… what’s hard is to stay excited about it.” – Dan Peña
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“Wishing, hoping, and dreaming without an action plan – is nothing more than a pipe dream!” – Dan Peña
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”I coach my mentees to act as if they are invincible – to act as if they could accomplish anything!” – Dan Peña
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“QLA is not about filling your brain with information – it is starting a fire within your heart and soul!” – Dan Peña
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“The truth is, I almost always did accomplish what I said I would – in the face of overwhelming obstacles!” – Dan Peña
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“As I have often said, I would rather be lucky than smart! But it is even better to be lucky and super smart!” – Dan Peña
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“If you don’t embrace a workload others would consider crazy, then your goal doesn’t mean that much to you.” – Dan Peña
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“When you truly believe in your idea or your company or yourself, then you don’t need to have a huge ego or a huge personality.” – Dan Peña
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“You will definitely encounter lots of resistance on the road to super success, but don’t let others stop you from reaching your goals.” – Dan Peña
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“We must all remember life doesn’t have to be fair for us to succeed if we make the change and become masters and creators of our own destiny!” – Dan Peña
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“My time is much too precious to be wasted on people who merely want to talk about being a high-performance person and can’t or won’t take action!” – Dan Peña
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“I have said many times: We have self-esteem or don’t, based on how we were raised! Self-esteem is normally produced in your first few years of life.” – Dan Peña
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“I can work 5-10 hrs. straight with no problem, though I do take some time towards the end of a 6-8 hr. work stint out to beat myself severely in the gym with weights/aerobics, including intervals!” – Dan Peña
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“The truth is, successful people are not ten times smarter than you. They don’t really work ten times harder than you. So why are they successful? Because their dreams are so much bigger than yours!” – Dan Peña
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“I have written and said countless times it is not what happens to you in life that makes a difference! It is how we react to what happens to us in life that creates our history and – more importantly – our future!” – Dan Peña
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“Super-success is not for everyone, and you will endure weeks and months and years of hard work, obstacles, failures, victories, pain, and any manner of ‘negative’ experiences to reap the rewards of success, drink from the golden goblet, own the brass ring.” – Dan Peña
Powerful Dan Pena Quotes
- “It’s a changed world! Are you changing?” – Dan Peña
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“The best CEOs of all time are hedgehogs!” – Dan Peña
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“There’s no secret sauce to being a billionaire!” – Dan Peña
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“Human talent is the currency of the new economy.” – Dan Peña
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“We all have baggage from our upbringing! That’s life!” – Dan Peña
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“Practice within when you’re without. Practice success.” – Dan Peña
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“Political Correctness is a manifestation of a lack of self-esteem.” – Dan Peña
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“It’s wrong to be taught you’re the pension fund of your parents!” – Dan Peña
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“CEO’s most important task…never stop becoming qualified for the job.” – Dan Peña
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“Reading books is not taking action! Taking action is pulling the trigger!” – Dan Peña
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“Build something that is worthy and stands for something to someone…” – Dan Peña
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“Entrepreneurship is enduring pain for a long time without relinquishing.” – Dan Peña
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“We are told you have to remember who you are and where you came from.” – Dan Peña
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“Size is the enemy of speed! Speed to react matters more than size of company…” – Dan Peña
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“People want to be led by strong leaders, and good leaders are constant students.” – Dan Peña
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“Good leaders make sense of change in the world… then imparts that insight to the team.” – Dan Peña
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“If you change a billion lives, that’s the formula to become a billionaire and change the world.” – Dan Peña
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“If love got the job done, most parents would have produced high performers. Most of them haven’t!” – Dan Peña
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“By definition, to work with me, you need thicker skin and must be OK with a certain amount of verbal abuse!” – Dan Peña
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“Too many people waste time on personal development instead of execution. They confuse reading for action.” – Dan Peña
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“The more emotional distractions you have the harder it is to accomplish your goals – especially at the extreme levels!” – Dan Peña
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“There’s no seminar in the world that will give you multi-million-dollar advice on building a business from scratch!” – Dan Peña
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“It’s a changed world! Are you changing? You see, all super high performance people go against conventional wisdom.” – Dan Peña
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“We have two bank accounts – the emotional bank account and the financial bank account. We empty one into the other.” – Dan Peña
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“The best form of customer service is self-service. Constantly empower customers to get their own answers themselves.” – Dan Peña
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“Question: how do you know if your company is worthy of lasting??? Answer: does it stand for something great to someone?” – Dan Peña
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“I could write a book describing what differentiates the high-performance person from all the rest! Hell, I could write volumes!” – Dan Peña
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“I don’t want anybody to love me. In fact, I don’t want anyone to even like me. I want them to respect me. Respect is fine.” – Dan Peña
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“Business deals start and end with people – the interaction of flesh and blood, bone and sinew, heart and mind, emotion and soul.” – Dan Peña
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“All our lives we are told by the pundits our goals are not realistic. Our dreams are too far-fetched. Our expectations are too high!” – Dan Peña
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“Great DNA encoding of people and values (not ideas) in young companies early on will create the truly great and lasting companies later.” – Dan Peña
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“Popular consensus = recipe for failure. The aforementioned rhetoric is what we and every other human being have been told since Guthrie man.” – Dan Peña
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“Next time, you question what you are doing – ask yourself? What could I do more? In most cases, extra time will be the greatest leverage you can apply!” – Dan Peña
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“A famous man once said, ‘A sure formula for failure is to try and please everyone.’ Some might say I built a career on doing just the opposite of pleasing everyone.” – Dan Peña
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“We are preached to that those ‘things’ are for the ‘other’ people; you certainly can’t expect that for yourself; whom are you kidding? You’ll only disappoint yourself.” – Dan Peña
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“The job of CEOs is not to be the smartest guy in the room but to attract other smart guys to work for him. The ‘group brain’ is far more powerful than individual brainpower.” – Dan Peña
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“Even when one thoughtfully and judiciously plans, more often than not, such plans are overcome by external events. Therefore, never underestimate how wrong you can be!” – Dan Peña
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“Remarkably successful people habitually do what other people won’t do. They go where others won’t go because there’s a lot less competition and a much greater chance for success.” – Dan Peña
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“My life was changed a number of years ago when I heard Ted Turner of Time Warner/Turner Communications fame say ‘set goals you cannot accomplish in your lifetime.’” – Dan Peña
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“Turner, Iacocca, Ford, Dell, Edison, Gates, Jobs, Tom Watson, Perot, Fred Smith, Knight, Bezoes, and probably any superstar you know all subscribe to do what others felt was wrong.” – Dan Peña
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“Our lives are a series of lowered expectations year after year. We got pounded by everything around us. Just like our parents and their parents. We are products of our social and economic milieu.” – Dan Peña
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“The Hedgehog Vs Fox… the fox is smart & cunning but gets caught up in lots of details, becoming misdirected and chasing his own tail… hedgehogs do only one thing and do it well and nothing else… eat.” – Dan Peña
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“People regularly practice playing a sport like golf or basketball – but few people think about ‘practicing being successful.’ I had practiced meeting the Queen of England – what I would wear, how I would stand, the handshake – so when I did meet her, I was comfortable – for I had practiced the moment for years.” – Dan Peña
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“The Internet has allowed even more growth possible than in the bricks and mortar industries that I dealt with years ago. It is easier to get a business to a million dollars/pounds in revenue on the net! It is not easy! But it is easier when compared to construction, etc., though all businesses use the Internet to enhance marketing.” – Dan Peña
More Facts and Details About Dan Peña
Company Name: Quantum Leap Advantage (QLA) Methodology
Net Worth: Estimated net worth of $600 Million in 2022 (As per Forbes)
Famous books authored by Dan Pena are QLA’s 50 Billion Dollar Man, Financing your Dreams, Investigation and Analysis of Deals, Your First 100 Million, and more.
What is Dan Pena famous for?
Peña Sr., or Dan Peña, is known as the Trillion Dollar Man. He is the Founder of the Quantum Leap Advantage (QLA) Methodology.
Peña began his career as a financial analyst on Wall Street. He went on to become president of Great Western Resources, Inc., a Houston-based oil company listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1984
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