“I feel like I could be a corporate guy,
but I just didn’t want to be a corporate guy,”
he said. “I started doing a bunch of research
and I knew I could do it, so I went ahead
and I just started up.”
he’s been successful primarily because of the
quality of the people who’ve joined his
team.
Toward that end, the company has been
listed among Cincinnati’s top 100 places to
work by the Enquirer newspaper in each of
the last two years.
“You can’t do it all yourself. You’ve got to
find people with the right mindset,” he said.
“Kids out of college, not necessarily the
right mindset at that point. You almost
want to see them go into a job for some
work experience and then look for
something else, and we want to be that
something else.
“Of our top five salesmen, there’s only one
college degree. So it’s not about the college
degree. We want highly motivated and
highly aggressive people that want to grow
and continue to grow. You’ve got to have
integrity, brains and motivation, and if we
get those three we can teach you how to the
job. I even say, if you get two out of those
three, I can make it work. But you’ve got to
have integrity.”
And not surprisingly, when Steger looks
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