Maybe Billy Temiz is right.
"Business is business. If you're a businessman, you can do anything," said the chairman of 6th Avenue Electronics, who, along with his brother Mike, is one of Dealerscope's 2010 Hall of Fame Inductees. "We are all quick learners."
This year's six inductees are all students of the retail channel, men who have spent much of their lives studying the intricacies of their businesses and landing at the top of their class.
They all come from different backgrounds—the spacious West, the dense suburbs of New York, the Mid-Atlantic, and as far away as Turkey—and they have all learned in different ways. Vann's George Manlove went back to school last year to earn his MBA. 6 Avenue Electronics' Mike Temiz left school at 14 but continues to learn from his older brother Billy, who learned the foundations of good business from his father, a blacksmith.
Audiovox's Pat Lavelle knows too well that most lessons culled from the product development and marketing sides of the channel can't be taught in school. Adam Carroll of New Age learned from the hundreds of vendors he has worked with as a distributor, while Gene Chaiken of Almo, another distributor, pares his most important teachers down to two mentors.
Despite their disparate backgrounds and styles, each man makes a point of passing down what he's learned and continue to learn to those in their companies and in the greater industry. We congratulate the members of this year's Dealerscope Hall of Fame. May we continue to learn from them and those they influence.
Click here for a list of past inductees.
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