From Rags To Riches: John Hewitt's Millionaire-Making Machine
Tom Dardick sits down with John Hewitt, a business visionary renowned for achieving business success by making a profound impact on countless lives. John, the mastermind behind Jackson Hewitt and Liberty Tax, shares his journey of creating thousands of millionaires through franchising, innovation, and a relentless commitment to growth. Tune in to explore the principles that fueled John’s success and discover how his story can inspire you to elevate your own business ventures
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From Rags To Riches: John Hewitt's Millionaire-Making Machine
Introduction To John Hewitt's Legacy
On the show, it's a phenomenal pleasure to have John Hewitt. You might recognize the last name from Jackson Hewitt. He's one of the principals who started that very successful tax advisory firm, one of the more successful franchises in the world. He had another one, Liberty Tax. He's had a couple of very successful business ventures that have resulted in him changing the lives of literally thousands of people. He's made over 1,000 millionaires and has created a ripple effect in the world that is pretty hard to measure. We'll talk about how he was able to do that, what it is about him, and the way he looks at things. That led to his ability to be able to make that impact. Help me welcome John Hewitt to the show.
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John, I want to thank you for your time. I don't get the opportunity to interview somebody that has your particular resume that often. I'm thankful for that gift. I want to get in with you about your personal story and what drove you to make such a big splash in this world. Maybe start with your formative thoughts and philosophy and how that played out over time.
I've always been driven and always been a competitor, and I always wanted to be the best at whatever I did. I've always been a bad loser. Whether it was in a sport or in school, scholastically, I always wanted to be the best of the best. When I was a kid, I thought I was cocky. I was poor, but I knew I was going to be a millionaire. I didn't know how, but I thought I was not very thoughtful.
Creating A Thousand Millionaires
I thought I would make a few million dollars and retire. Along the way, I realized that the treasure at the end of the rainbow is anticlimactic; it's the joys of the journey. I've spent my 55-year career changing lives. I've created 1,000 millionaires. I've brought in 5,200 people into franchising, and they had hundreds, thousands of employees. I've been a major change catalyst for so many people. I'm so blessed to be able to do that.
I heard the actor Denzel Washington. He did a commencement speech and I was shocked for a moment. He said the most selfish people in the world are people that help others. I said, “What?” He said, “Because they're so happy. There's no joy for me. Nothing that happens to me each and every day other than that makes me happier than changing lives and improving lives.” Our mission statement is having fun and improving lives. I have been blessed to be able to do that for 55 years.
The most selfish people are those who help others, because true happiness comes from changing lives and improving the world around you.
You started off thinking that it was the big pile of money and the glamour and the ability to go to nice places and have nice toys and all that. That was enough to get you going but you learned that, wait a minute here, that's not the highest mountain to climb. The highest mountain to climb is making a big impact that filters out to other people. Of course, making 1,000 millionaires, that's an amazing thing to be able to say. What a legacy that is because that ripples out over and over. It's not the money. It's the fact that you're lifting people up and setting sites to hire. I'm guessing their lives are not changed materially. They're also changed spiritually as well. Would you say that's true?
Absolutely. I was surprised by one of my top people many years ago. She'd been with me for about 4 or 5 years and her best friend and I were having dinner and came to find out she had become a millionaire. Come to find out, when I hired her, she had been being verbally abused by her husband. Once she began making more money than him, everything changed around. Their relationship changed. You're exactly right. It's one thing making someone a millionaire, and it's another giving them self-confidence, independence, and joy in their life.
Also, Tom, it's generational, and other people are paying it forward. When I change someone's life, let's say they have a handful of children, then it changes the children's lives and then their children's lives. This is people, even if they don't pay it forward to others, which they almost always do with employees and charities and so forth, they're paying it forward to their families. The impact is so incredible. It's hard to fathom.
It's amazing. It moves me every time I think about this. I always think of the movie It's a Wonderful Life because you've been able to live this out. I think a lot of people do it in perhaps not as pronounced ways, but I think everybody has the opportunity to have that impact on the world around them. Maybe they sell themselves short a lot of times. You were able to come up with a system, some innovations that were then shared and franchised, and you saw a way to deliver value at scale. That was perhaps the reason the tower got so tall. Are there other factors that were able to expand your reach?
Absolutely. You're right. First of all, not everyone is as blessed as I am. I'm way more blessed than the average person. None of what I've done has come from John Hewitt who went out and was better than anyone else without God's help. God gave me these blessings. I've been fortunate enough. Most people don't use their blessings. Too much is given, much is expected. I find people fall short. Even if you can change one person's life, and that's all the capability you have, that's all the God-given abilities you have, that's something you have to use your talents.
My favorite story in the Bible is the talent story. The one servant got five talents, the other got two, and they both doubled. The master said the same words to each of them. All the treasures of heaven and earth will be yours. Someone only had two abilities and the other had five. I think I've been given so many blessings, and it is like a perfect storm. I've had the right characteristics.
When you said all of the characteristics, one of the most common questions I've ever been asked in my career is, what's the most important thing in massive success in building? I built two chains of 10,000 offices with $1.5 billion value to public companies, to the top 100 retail chains in the country and so blessed. People say, “What is it?” I actually have a webinar I do every week. Finally, I had an epiphany and I would always say what it was, the number one thing, but I realized that it doesn't think.
I said, “I'm going to come up with the top 10 most important things necessary to grow something exponentially, huge.” Actually, I came up with twelve. I still call it my top 10 because, in college football, the big 10 has like 14 teams. If they can call it the Big 10, I can call my top 10 reasons the top 10. There are ten attributes that are incredibly important to build great, huge organizations.
Do you want to go into a little bit of that? Maybe share it.
Overcoming Adversity And The Importance Of Perseverance
I actually spent an hour on it. We probably don't have all that time. I can tell you that the most important thing for sure is perseverance, that I've never seen a human being of any success level who didn't face adversity. The winners get up each and every time. Everyone gets knocked down. The most effective winners always get up. They never stay down. , you got to kill me to stop me. There are a couple of others that are critically important in huge companies.
To create massive success, you need perseverance, vision, and integrity. Success isn't about never falling, but always getting back up.
One is you have to have a vision and you have to be able to convince that it's fairly accurate. You have to be able to get everyone to buy in, your investors, your employees, your customers, your vendors. You have to get everyone to buy into your dream. You have to do what you say you're going to do. Many people are integrityists. Simply doing what you say you're going to do. Not 5% of us do what we say we're going to do. Those are critical components of massive success.
I always think of Don McGillwees's four agreements, where one of the agreements is to be impeccable with your word. The thing about those four agreements is that they're simple to say and hard to do. Integrity is a word thrown around a lot because everyone recognizes its importance, but how much effort goes into maintaining the feed and caring of our integrity? Before I go on, let me ask you what your view is. How do you think people, in general, may squander their integrity? What do you think the traps are that they fall into, John?
I watch it. Of course, I've helped many people, mentored and coached many people, and had many discussions with potential and existing franchisees. Almost no one is mentally committed once they say something. They'll say, “I'm going to do this. Within a year, I'm going to accomplish this.” What I see in their eyes and their actions is that they're not at all committed to that. If I say, “I'm going to do something within 12 months or 2 days, I'm anxious if I don't do what I say I'm going to do.” There's a general old wives tale about handshake deals.
Back in 100, 150 years ago, we used to be able to shake a man's hand and make a deal. You can’t do that anymore. Even if you have a huge agreement, a 100-page, 500-page agreement, people violate it left and right. The old integrity of a handshake deal has totally disappeared. It's become common practice, and we see it in every walk of life, especially in politics, for example. Have you ever seen someone run for an office that did what they said they were going to do? That's absolutely unheard of. We see so many examples of people who don't mean what they say, don't stand behind what they say, that you cannot count on them, that it's become common practice.
It's a shame. If you go to weddings and you can tell you're making a lifelong vow and you can almost tell whether the people are getting married or if they're trying marriage on for size. It's a similar thing there because that's about as big a promise as you can make, it seems, or one of them anyway. It's taken so lightly and it didn't use to. I agree with that. I'm old enough to know that and to have seen the movement. What do you think that's about? What's at work here? Why is it worse now than it used to be?
As a historian and a student, lifelong student, I see that every great civilization has crumbled from within, whether it's the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Romans, or the British Empire or biblical that they crumble from within. Our values have eroded, and our sinning and not being guided by a higher power. I look at schools today, and they don't teach the four most important things in life. They don't teach about God. They don't teach about being a significant other. They don't teach how to raise children.
They don't teach you how to become independently wealthier or have an independent financial situation. The four most important things you don't learn, but you can learn how to have sex change at seven years old or something. I mean, disgusting. Where are the basics? Our children aren't learning the basics. As you pointed out, so many fragmented families where they don't last very long and they're not. They don't have two parents and if you don't have school to guide you, you don't have role models of a father and mother. You're in quicksand.
You pointed at the historical record, and typically, everything crumbles and gets bad, and then out of ashes, something grows and might not be in the same geographic location, but things cycle out. Do you think that it has to be a disaster before things turn around? Do you think it's possible to turn such a big ship with leadership and recommitment to those principles? It is true that a lot of people know these principles. A lot of people know what you said is actually the wisdom that we should be going towards. Is it possible to turn it off once it starts going bad the way it has?
I think I only believe that there are three certainties in life, death, tax, and change. Based on the service and the quality of humans in the United States in my 75 years, it's gotten worse every year. I see no hope. My only hope is that there are only three servants, death, tax, and chain. It is possible, but based on history and my 75 years of crumbling expectations and disappointment with service and the quality of human nature in our country, I have very little hope. So much so that if I knew of another country that was not going in this direction or had hope, I have 6 children, 11 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren, I would move them somewhere else in the world. Still, even though we're crumbling, I feel that we're the best of the best.
It's quite a pickle. Now, you mentioned taxes being one of the three certainties and we've been talking about the philosophy. I guess the overall viewpoint of people. Let me talk about ethical or morals or spiritual, because the problem is spiritual. Would you agree with that? The overall problem is spiritual. We're in a spiritual crisis in this sense. When you get into spirit, you're getting away from the calculus of the human equation of transactionalism, and things happen.
We're talking in the aftermath right now of an iconic moment where an assassin tried to take out President Trump. I'll tell you, to anybody who is somebody who believes in a higher power and believes in God in whatever you would picture that is, it is often hard not to think that little head motion seems very providential. If you don't, if you're an atheist, maybe you can put it up to blind chance. If you do that math, it seems the likelihood of that happening is so remote. I know it's specific and maybe political, but I'm curious as to your view of an event like that and what it means in the context of where our conversation's going, John.
God works in very strange ways. One of the things I've learned is the more I give, the more I get. You can’t outgive God. You're right. In the first few views, I didn't see him turn his head because I saw it right afterward, saw all the replays. I saw him turn, but he never turned his head. He's usually always facing the audience very stoically.
I said to myself, “Whatever it is, God has some purpose for him.” Whether it's president or not, God has some purpose for him. God interceded in that event. What's the chance of a gunman with 7 or 8 shots from that close totally missing all of them, and he turned his head, or if he hadn't turned his head, he'd be dead? We would have seen his head explode on TV. Certainly, God had handed it in my opinion.
It makes sense that we don't know what the meaning of that necessarily is. I guess we'll see it play out. In an instance like that, I wonder if that thing, I'm going to start crying because it's possible it could change things in a big way.
He's a force of change, that's for sure. Trump is a force of change. When he was president, he dramatically changed many things.
For those who are listening, think of Trump as some people think he's like the Antichrist, the absolute opposite of somebody that God would want to save his life. There's that view out there, too, and there are plenty of things that he's said and things that he's done that people make that case with. It's not real clear to somebody who's trying to figure it all out what all this means, but one thing that if you and I and others who see it this way, if we think that there's a hand of providence there if the hand of providence is there, it could also be elsewhere.
Hopefully, it's not as dark as all that where we have to descend into true widespread suffering. Maybe we do. People tend to have to learn things the hard way. It's funny because I used to be a little bit more pessimistic about the future before I started doing these kinds of interviews, having the kinds of conversations you and I are having, John. I've been talking to people who are dedicated and talented, lifting people up, and bettering the world around them in important ways. I'm stunned by how many people are doing that.
You don't see it very much. You don't see their work. It's never put out there in the media or celebrated in way, but as you start meeting the people and you've talked to, I'm sure you're a podcast guest, you talk to tons of people, you probably do see quite a few very talented people moving to try to make things better. I know you said it's like things go down and each year it gets worse, but I'm thinking, do you think that could have a possible impact?
Of course, it does. It stops it from falling out. We're not going down a cliff. We're gradually going down. I'll say it in a different way. I've helped tens of thousands of people, and 80 or 90% of them are not grateful. They're not significantly grateful, but the 10% or 20% that are grateful make up for all the rest that are ungrateful. There are good people with good values who are doing the right thing.
You're right that in this country, there are millions of good deeds every minute that go unnoticed and, unfortunately, are usually unappreciated. I can’t convince my children that they're to be alive and healthy and living in the United States. You're in the top one or 2% of most fortunate human beings that ever live. They're typical children that complain and they whine. God fearing and God loving starts with being grateful. Not everyone is a bad person, and not all society is going down the tubes, but overall, it's enough. We're going gradually downhill.
Against that backdrop, you've obviously been a mender to many people. You said you have your ten attributes to pay attention to those. You're a man of God, it sounds like, where you have faith and you put your faith in willpower higher than your own. One of the things I was wondering about against that is how you juxtapose your personal agency and talents and the things you can give to people against God's will or the backdrop of what's happening that we cannot necessarily change or control. How do you navigate those waters, John?
In a way, I don't do it very well in this way that I'm brutally frank. Peter Drucker, one of my favorite business authors, said, “People with great strengths have great weaknesses.” I can be annoying. Tom, If sometime in this interview I thought I had advice for you and you might have done 5,000 podcasts or 500 podcasts, or you might be the premier expert, but if I felt that there was some advice I could give you, I would feel compelled to say it.
Let's say I went into a restaurant and I got some bad service. I would typically use my feet and not go back in there again. I wouldn't complain, but if I feel that I could have an effect on you, I might be brazen enough, bold enough, and obnoxious enough to tell you. I'm not a clever diplomat at watching people's feelings when I give them advice. I can get into trouble for that, but I do it more often than I usually do. I only do it if I think I can have some impact.
People don't want to change. I've never met a person who told me, “I don't want to improve.” When you improve, you have to change. You cannot improve if you do what you always did. You get what you always got. People don't want to change. They don't want the pain of change. They want to improve, but how did you improve the last year? I read a book or I don't ask me to change anything. I do it and I have advice for you. If you ask me to mentor you, I will give you advice. I don't do it in a diplomatic way.
Be careful what you ask for, basically.
If a woman comes up to me, even if it's my woman and says, “How do I look.” I'm going to tell the truth. If you want to be told you look good when you don't, then you shouldn't be asking me.
Going back to that integrity and being impeccable with your word, it's pure to say what you actually think and to play the game of, “How is this going to be received?” Now, we're moving away from the reality of life. That's the thing about reality. It has a nasty habit of not going away because we don't want it to be.
It's there every minute, like it or not.
We talked about gratitude and integrity. A lot of this is when we're talking about character, and you pointed out that everyone has the idea of themselves and wants to be a better version of themselves. I'm in that business myself, trying to take it to a very high scale. I get a lot of lip service. I get a lot of people that say things. I always ask people if they have ever made a New Year's resolution and have not kept it. People will say most people can relate to that. I say, “Why? Why cannot you decide to do something and then do it?”
People will sit there and they'll think and they'll think some more. they'll be like, “I don't know.” It's complicated, in other words. That's because we're complicated. There's a lot more to us than meets the eye. Some of that wants one thing, and some of that wants another. We're not willing to make sacrifices for the one. We're not integrated, and we're not all that mature. We're not clear about what matters more than what. That improvement process is an investigation into what matters more than what is the best I can tell. What's your view of that process, John?
I think you're exactly right. I think it's a lack of discipline. When you have great athletes like Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Novik Jokovec, Mickey Manler, or a great quarterback, Bart Starr or a great athlete, they put in so much work. Vince Lombardi was probably the greatest pro football coach ever and people think he said, “Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing.” That's not the true.
That's not the true saying. He said, “Preparation is the only thing.” You cannot win without proper preparation. It's a discipline. When you think about those athletes that you watch on a Sunday afternoon, you're watching a football game. In their life, they spent tens of thousands of hours practicing. They're out there at the gym, running four hours a day.
The Discipline Required For Success
You have to have that discipline in order to win. The people that when you talk about a New Year's resolution, I think it comes down to two major things. Number one is you didn't put enough thought into it. You didn't mentally commit to it. Two is the other reason you're undisciplined. You're never going to be a Michael Jordan. You're never going to be a Aaron Judge. You're never going to make it because you don't have that discipline.
When I was a kid, if I could have been anything in my life, I would have been a ballplayer for the New York Yankees. Even if it was possible, I did not have the discipline to go out 30 hours a week when I was 10 years old, 11 years old, 12 years old, 30, 40, and 50 hours a week and learn baseball and I didn't have the discipline to do that so I could never reach that possibility. It comes down to either a lack of conviction because I didn't think about it or I cannot be disciplined enough. Even though that's my dream come true, and I would have been a New York Yankee, I was not disciplined to do all that work.
You weren't prepared to pay the price that that particular prize costs.
Exactly.
The first part of what you were saying is people don't make that calculus. They say they want to be 30 pounds less and have vitality. Of course, we all want to have a magic wand or a pill that we can take and a shortcut and all that, but when we have to look at it, “What's the price? I cannot eat ice cream anymore.” That's a big price. I love ice cream. I think that's a big price too, but what are you going to do? You’ve got to choose one or the other.
Sugar is the toughest thing to cut. The worst addiction on the planet is sugar.
I remember I saw a study, that was suppressed, but it was a study by a British researcher who came out in 1973 that basically asserted that if you use the same standards to regulate prescription drugs, sugar would be a banned substance for that reason. It's ubiquitous everywhere and people use it all the time doesn't make it that it's necessarily smart. Tastes good and it's not necessarily narcotic, but it's bad in so many ways and it's so seductive in so many ways that it does lead us in bed.
We're talking about sugar, but there are other things that are like sugar, things that may not be physical but perhaps mental or habits kinds of things. To move towards the end, when you're seeing people that you're trying to help, mentor or coach or you're setting them up with a franchise or a business or they come to you for help, you hit on a few things here as to what they can pay attention to. What are the things that you think hold them in place? Again, you talked a few, but I want to see if there is something else you could elaborate on.
The worst excuse ever is that's the way I've always done it. I'm different from others in a few ways, but one way is I'm fanatically committed to winning. In business, to win, you have to have the best system. I'm fanatically committed to having the best system. I do know that there's no system that is working today that's going to be equally effective five years from now.
The worst excuse ever is 'that's the way I've always done it.' To win, you must be fanatically committed to having the best system.
I know that to have the best system, it has to be an ever-improving system. I am committed to learn and improve because I have to do that to keep the best system. I love one phrase, a simple phrase “If you're not improving, your competitor is gaining at you.” I love that phrase. Most people, get complacent, and even of all the millionaires I've made and all the 50% millionaires and all the people I've changed their lives with, once people get the house they want, the car they want, the education for the children they want, the pet they want, the time they want, they all stop.
Making Millionaires: Complacency is the killer of dreams. Even after achieving your goals, never stop learning, growing, and helping others.
If you're not constantly improving, your competitors are gaining on you. Complacency is the enemy of greatness.
They get complacent. That's why where we got retirement, the word retirement. They got to kill me to stop me. God bless those people that want to retire. I feel I'm at the peak of my knowledge and experience, and I am able to help and mentor people. If I went and sat on a beach somewhere and didn't help people and give guidance, it seems to me I wasted all the talent that God gave me.
That's my favorite thing that you've said so far. I'm trying to live that myself. I incorporated the Eye of Power as a business this year. I'm approaching the age where people start thinking about retirement and I'm like, “Wait a minute, I'm starting here. I'm starting to figure life out now. I can’t stop now. I got 30 years left to go here.” Age is a number, and getting old is something that, while we can’t necessarily stop the march of time or the effects of what might happen with our bodies, our attitude is something that we can definitely influence and think about.
I think of it as getting old is almost optional. As you said, you're going to have to take you out to stop you. I absolutely love that because that's how it should be. If you're helping people, what do you want to stop helping people for? If you keep learning and you learn more and you're that much more valuable, you can help people that much more profoundly. Why would you stop? I don't understand the mentality.
Neither do I. I cannot empathize with that way of thinking.
I think they're not thinking in those terms, which is what I get. They're thinking about themselves and not how they're helping other people, perhaps.
How can you believe in God and retire somewhere and not do anything? I guess that's almost sacrilegious because everyone retired. Almost everyone retires. I think you got to be constantly thinking about about making a difference.
I do know people who've retired, are very active in their churches, or volunteer, and some people are busier than they were when they were working. I think there is that impulse, but when you're constantly building expertise and you're constantly moving in a direction and you have that Treasure Trove, it seems like that's the thing to keep going with it. You can always start something new too. I think it's never too late to start something. The idea of Colonel Sanders in ‘67, that whole thing.
The Story Of Colonel Sanders: It's Never Too Late
I love that story. He was broke, and he got a pension check or a social security check of $105. He was going to live the rest of his life on $105 a month. He went out and got a loan of about $90, fried up some chicken, and went around selling it. Fifteen, twenty years later, he became a billionaire.
Absolutely incredible. That is inspirational because if he did it, it's possible to do it. Now, maybe not everybody can fry chicken the way he did. I'm sure there are other attributes that led to that path, but everyone has their particular gifts. They can develop and use the particular thing they're given.
Everyone should be able to make someone else's life better.
Is there anything else you want to add that we didn't touch on yet, John? I loved our conversation.
Final Thoughts And The Importance Of Continuous Learning
I have only a few more minutes and I have 55 years of experience. The only other way that we can do it would be to do another show.
That's something that I would love to do. I think that's fabulous, we got plenty to talk about for sure. John, thank you so much for being with us and sharing your perspective. I am happy with what we talked about and its sage words and I hope it moves some people to nourish their gratitude, nourish their integrity, move towards being a continual learner and continual grower, and don't shoot whenever they think you can live on your whatever your savings is, but develop yourself as a person that contributes to the people around you in the way that only you can. You're a fantastic example of that. Thank you so much.
It's been my pleasure.
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John, thanks again for being my guest. It's quite an honor to talk to you and to gain the wisdom. We did review a bit of what you shared. I want to take a moment to highlight a couple of things and underscore them. When I asked about your 10 attributes, which are actually 12 attributes for success in the world, the first one that came to mind for you was perseverance.
That's something that we do have control over. Some things we don't have control over, but whether we're going to stop is a decision we can make. I think that's something that points directly to our personal agency. When you have a goal that you want, how bad do you want it? The world has a way of measuring that commitment level. Sometimes the price for that thing you want is to prove how much you want, and how much you're willing to pay for it.
A lot of that price is in your perseverance. I think that's a good one. He also talked about vision. Of course, it's very important for a leader to get people to row in the same direction. You want their best selves going in that direction. You need to appeal to the universal things that they find important. Not everybody does, but you find the people who are passionate about the cause or the mission that you are pointing towards. You nourish that. How?
We talked a lot about integrity. Being somebody who says what you mean and means what you say. When you say something, somebody can take it to the bank. That's a pretty high bar. It's easy to get thrown off. It's easy to make an excuse. It's easy to have something else come up that you prefer to do when you've made a commitment or you feel like, I'm not up for that. You give yourself permission to slip.
It might feel right in the moment, but if it's at the cost of building your integrity, that's a super high price because what you're doing is you're taking away the ability to build a tower, a high tower. Now, not everybody is going to build something as high as a John Hewitt, but you can build a tower pretty darn high given your particular gifts. If you would marshal them and make a commitment and do so with integrity and gratitude, there's no telling what impact you can make.
That's all of us. Again, he acknowledged that he was gifted a lot. Obviously, he's a smart guy. Not only built those very successful organizations, but chess master and bridge master, he was race-horsing. Anything he does, he can do well. Obviously very intelligent and very driven. Those are very powerful attributes, but we all have our attributes. You have tremendous attributes. It's a matter of systematic because that's something else John shared.
He shared, “If I'm going to be able to remain successful, I have to learn and grow because everybody else is going to catch up. I cannot stay where I am.” I think that's never been more true than it is today. We talk about that a lot. It's a matter of being in that question. How can I get better? What can I do today so that I'm better tomorrow?
I think that's a very helpful thing, a helpful question to be in. We didn't talk too much about it, but I would say is what we always talk about in the show, don't do it alone. John did actually mention that earlier. He didn't do it by himself. That's an important thing. You get a team. You have a vision. You make commitments and keep them and get people around a thing and demand or expect that same level of commitment from them.
You work on discipline, and you work on attributes that are simple but not easy. That's where a lot of the magic of life is. It's certainly where our center of the bullseye for getting our agency and bringing our best self to the world lies in those areas. That's the theme of our discussion. Thanks again, John, and thank you for listening to us. Be well.
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About John Hewitt
John Hewitt is a renowned American entrepreneur who has made a significant impact in the business world through his innovative ideas and strategic thinking. He is best known for his success in the tax preparation industry, having founded two of the largest tax preparation companies in the United States - Jackson Hewitt and Liberty Tax. Both companies represent two of the top 100 largest retail organizations in North America.
John Hewitt has:
• Founded and grew two of the largest retail chains in North America
• In 2012, Liberty Tax Service operated over 4,000 locations in the U.S. and Canada
• International Franchise Association Entrepreneur of the Year (2005)
• Accounting Today - Top 100 Most Influential People (2000-2012)
• Best Selling Author – iCompete: How My Extraordinary Strategy For Winning Can Be Yours (2016)
• Inc. Magazine (1992) - Jackson Hewitt ranked 2nd in the tax industry and was one of the fastest growing private companies in the United States