Swede Joseph Chevalier: Not Going
Halfway
What
is the point. . . .
. . . of doing something if not all the way?
So at 10, Swede Joseph Chevalier plants pumpkin seeds,
then sells his harvest to nursery schools around
Middletown, N.J.
At 16, he starts a landscaping business that he keeps
going by commuting home weekends from Cornell, and
throughout his time at Cantor Fitzgerald, where he was,
at 26, an assistant equities trader.
Don't just join a fraternity: be president for two
years and then get inducted into Cornell's honor society
for campus leaders.
Don't just admire cars: trade up four in six years and
drive them too fast.
Don't sit back and watch sports: fling yourself at
them, especially speed-and-thrill ones like ice hockey
and mountain biking.
Do define crash-dieting as a day fueled by 10 puny
power bars, and a dinner that begins with lasagna,
hamburgers, sausage and chicken and keeps on going.
Do choose a favorite song from a new CD, play it
loudly, over and over, until everyone sings it in their
sleep, regardless of whether they actually like it.
Do be overprotective of your mother, Elaine; sisters,
Tylia and Brittany; girlfriend, Melissa Markewich.
Gamble big. Lend happily. Love fully. Never sit
still.
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