Bill Britton on Thinking Bigger in Life and Business

Bill is a Managing Director and co-founded Cross Keys Capital in 2006. Bill leads the healthcare practice and is responsible for successfully closing 50 physician practice management transactions since 2010. He has over 25 years of experience in M&A including divestitures, acquisitions, restructurings, and capital raises for a broad range of clients both domestically and internationally. Prior to founding the firm, Bill worked at Outsource International, where he raised private capital, took the company public and led over 40 transactions. He has also worked at Ryder System, where he participated in a leveraged buyout of the truck rental unit, and began his career in the investment banking department at Morgan Stanley. Bill Britton wanted to be financially independent even as a young 10 year old... He’s cleaned most toilets than most maids have ever cleaned in their life... He has done more trashy house work and low-level jobs... Watch FULL YOUTUBE INTERVIEW HERE All those jobs did not break Bill but built him. He did not attend the best school nor was he in the best grades. But when he went to school, he told himself that he was going to be the best. So, he graduated as first of his class. He was focused. First couple of years in college was not fun but he knew what he wanted to do and where he wanted to be. He later went to Wall Street and did some good work which allowed him to go to a really good grad school and it just gave the opportunity to do what he wanted to do. Today, Bill is not interested in doing 2 billion dollar deals of Golden Sachs which are relatively easy but he’s doing 20, 30, 40 or 100 million dollar deals which are changing people’s lives   In this episode you will take away many promising insights as below (plus many more):  o   Formula or recipe for luck o   Criteria to evaluate people for a mentor mentee relationship o   How to elevate mindset or financial blueprint to attain big numbers o   Entrepreneurial stages o   Advice for people getting into ‘Investment Banking World’ Inspirational Quotes from the episode: -If you work hard at something and you stick to it, you'll have more opportunities to create your own version of luck -Unfortunately today, a lot of people think it's just instantaneous: it should happen to me right away, but that's just not how it works -No matter where you went to school or what you learned, it's on the job training that really works for everything -One of the most important things that anyone could do especially at a younger age is find a really good mentor or two who can guide them through the various facets of life -It’s those relationships that make it a lot more challenging: whether it's business relationships or personal and navigating some of those things is really hard  -You got to hit a lot of singles to get someone around the bases -If you're going to be a trash man, be the best freaking trash man out there because one day you may figure out a path how to do something different with that -One of the biggest challenges that we actually see is entrepreneurs are not thinking big enough