{"id":15812,"date":"2013-10-02T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T05:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devwp.davison.com\/blog\/?p=15812"},"modified":"2017-08-21T13:38:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T17:38:02","slug":"mr-davison-offers-sound-advice-at-ceo-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/mr-davison-offers-sound-advice-at-ceo-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Davison offers Sound Advice at CEO Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15813 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"St.BarnabasLeadershipConference\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/St.BarnabasLeadershipConference-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On September 24, Mr. Davison took to the microphone at the 27<sup>th<\/sup> Annual St. Barnabas CEO Leadership Conference in Gibsonia. While at the conference, Mr. D shared the trials and tribulations that he has experienced both in his personal life and in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from these ups and downs, Mr. Davison has found great success within the industry and it showed not only to the people in the room but to people from all over the world that if you have a dream, you can achieve it.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. D told those in attendance his story of growing up in poverty after his parents\u2019 divorce and how he discovered, after many failed business ventures, however big or small they were, that he no longer wanted to sell other people\u2019s products; he wanted to sell his own.<\/p>\n<p>And that is exactly what he did. Mr. Davison took his failures in stride and created a better way to make his dreams come true through hard work and perseverance. That determination paid off when he created Inventionland, America\u2019s largest invention factory and was called a \u201ccreative genius\u201d by <em>Entrepreneur Magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Before Mr. Davison departed from the stage,<strong> <\/strong>he left the more than 200 senior executives at the conference with this piece of advice, <strong>\u201cFind what you like to do<\/strong>. <strong>Look at it. Study it. What do you see? Is that what you want to do?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We think that it\u2019s safe to say that through Mr. D\u2019s failures he found a better way to create success.<\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright Davison 2013<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 24, Mr. Davison took to the microphone at the 27th Annual St. Barnabas CEO Leadership Conference in Gibsonia. While at the conference, Mr. D shared the trials and tribulations that he has experienced both in his personal life and in his career. 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