Desloge Home Oxygen and Medical Equipment
Bryan Desloge
I am humbled, honored, and flattered to have been chosen to receive this award.
In light of some of the previous and current award winners I feel I am in rare
company - Winston Churchill said it best in a historic speech in which he said
.."Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never--in nothing, great
or small, large or petty-- As the father of multiple teen-agers I could easily
apply to parenting as well as it could to running a business - Jim Moran and
the previous award winners showed what a stiff dose of perseverance can do -
In our case we grew our company from 15 employees to 50 in one year and then
back down to 15 again over the following few years - needless to say we took
some lumps along the way - thanks to some great employees, friends, mentors,
and advisory board members, including many of the previous award winners - we
survived and actually thrived -the silver lining is that in the end - when the
dust cleared we lowered our payroll without lowering Sales - and somewhere along
the way Dr Osteryoung finally convinced us that the bottom line is far more important
than the top line -
Three things stand out that I could not have done this without - Prayer, Planning,
and Perseverance - Prayer because you "have to have something to believe in" and
it gives you hope, and helps smooth the rough edges - I know that I have burned
up some of the kneelers over the last 10-15 years through some of the ups and
downs Planning because - if you don't know where you are going - how are you
ever going to get there? Perseverance because this is the only way you can survive
-pick yourself up - dust yourself off, and keep going - learn from your mistakes,
but get back in the fight - Character is shown at these dark times, when the
world is closing in.
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