![]() Liniger learned the same lesson through extra-curricular activities, like flying and jumping out of planes, competing in NASCAR races, and attempting to circumnavigate the globe in a helium balloon in 1998. "Hire other people that have strengths you do not have to supplement the strengths that you've got." "Once you can make some profit, then you can hire somebody that's better than you to do jobs that you don't want to do, or that you don't do well," Liniger says. When you start a business, you typically need to fill a lot of roles within the company, simply because you don't have the resources to bring in more specialized employees. "So, I hire talent that is much better than me at organizational skills." "I'm not an organized person," says Liniger, adding that his desk is often a mess. ![]() Here are his top four leadership lessons, learned over the course of his long career. He served as CEO for nearly 45 years before stepping down in 2018, and is now chairman of Re/Max's board of directors. They took on $300,000 of debt to hire employees and get it off the ground, but within five years, it was the largest real estate company in Colorado, Liniger says. Liniger left the military in 1971, moved to Denver and worked for other real estate brokerages before co-founding Re/Max with his soon-to-be wife, Gail. Then, he acquired a real estate license to save money on commissions, and discovered he had some talent as a broker. He reinvested his profits, and spent the next few years buying and restoring fixer-upper homes to flip. "I figured, working as hard as I did at four jobs, to make $5,000 on a six-month project was just the cat's meow." He spent six months restoring it, and flipped it for a $5,000 profit, he says. ![]() And that wasn't terrible."īy living frugally, he saved enough to buy a small, "very inexpensive" fixer-upper home. "Between the three part-time jobs, and the $99 I got from the service, I got up to $500. "In the evenings, I worked in a gasoline station - nobody had self-service at the time - and then I also worked in a movie theater," Liniger, 77, adds. In the early mornings, starting at 2 a.m., he had a newspaper route, he says. Air Force enlisted airman and Indiana University dropout, based near Tucson, Arizona, looking for ways to supplement his $99 per month military salary.
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