The business calls for charisma, dedication to customer satisfaction, and building trust,” he said. Such is the dedication to customer satisfaction, that the company became one of only six platinum stores in Canada, ranking highest in sales and service Ajax houses Durham Region’s luxury car corridor. Mark Endres owns the dealerships for Lexus, BMW, Jaguars, Landrovers, Volvo and Infiniti, with glitzy buildings and showrooms lining a trendy car mall strip.   Endres, who studied Computer Programming, bought the business from his father, Chris,  and spends his days building a tech startup called TradeRev. He turned over the luxury car dealerships to general managers. At the Lexus dealership, Rob Leccese,…

  We’re known to be difficult to do business here. We’ve got 425 acres vacant prime land available for 13 years, for example. We’ve got to move to convert those kinds of assets into jobs Ajax is a bustling, thriving, exciting town in Durham Region, and many residents actually believe it is a city, like its neighbours Whit, Pickering and Oshawa. However, it’s a Town, albeit with tremendous ambition, upstart bravado, and a dynamic energy.   One of its famous sons, Shaun Collier, served on the Ajax Town Council since 2003, and feels he’s earned his stripes to now be Mayor of the Town of Ajax. He’s campaigning hard to…

  I am happy to call Canada home. Canada is the greatest country in the world. I could not have done this in Afghanistan Nadia Peerzada grew up in Afghanistan. She was 16 years old when her parents married her to her suitor who was living in Canada, nine years her senior. Her new husband brought her to Canada, and today, a grown up woman with three children of her own – aged 24, 23 and 22 – Peerzada is a bubbling, pleasant, activist Canadian woman who wants to be a Councillor on the Pickering City Council.   Peerzada knocks on doors every day in Pickering as she takes time…

  My campaign is to reduce taxes, to make Durham affordable and safe again. I can deliver on this because I’ve done it before Bulky, muscular, with a body-builder’s walk, John Mutton ambles into a room with the confidence of a man who knows what he wants, and how to achieve his goals. He served as Mayor of Clarington 12 years ago, took a long break from political life, and operated his business, Municipal Solutions, as a successful entrepreneur. Now he’s back. And he is eyeing the Chairmanship of Durham Region. Mutton knows everybody. He’s got a rolodex that would be the envy of any business or political leader. He…

  I’ve visited 92 countries, and Canada is the best of them all,” Rana said, emphasizing that the “best thing about Canada is Canadians. They treat me so nice Peter C Newman wrote stunning Canadian books exploring the Old Establishment of Canadian “titans” – the leaders and visionaries of industry and great enterprises who dominate the economy; and then he wrote of the new class of 21st century titans, the globe-hopping new Canadians who build corporate world empires.   Now, as the second decade of the 21st century draws to a close, we’re seeing an entirely new breed of titans start to emerge: new immigrants who immigrate here under economic…

  Olowolafe backs 17 startups so far with his investment funds. He just signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Ryerson’s DMZ to set up an Investment Fund to invest in startups around the world that marginalized people would have founded. He’s keen on helping Canadian marginalized startup founders, and wants to see more black people in the startup arena. “This is a major gift to the university, to help make new things happen at all innovation spaces globally, wherever Ryerson’s DMZ reaches   Dream big, live for that dream, and believe you will make it happen. That’s the mindset that pushes Isaac Olowolafe Junior, 35, to achieve astonishing feats, such as currently developing…

  “I am always hungry for knowledge, to learn new things. This drive to know more I think is the single most valuable mindset that caused me to achieve my goals,” Potvin said. Every day, he consumes business videos and podcasts, and read to keep his mindset focused In the next five years, Canada will be home to a million millionaires, double the number of Canadian millionaires in 2018. Today, 100 billionaires call Canada home. Our country offers rich possibilities. Most made their wealth not in Real Estate, but from “soaring stock markets”, according to a report on Canadian wealth that the Boston Consulting Group commissioned: startups that go Public…

  The Millionaire Mindset magazine talked to this fascinating son of Ontario to gather the truth, the testimony, the life lesson, that we could share with you our readers, of how anybody could transform his or her mindset to move from the worst situation this world could plunge you into, to the most successful person possible We’re breathing metaphors, us humans. We each of us embody ideas and theories and testimonies of life with vibrant, alive flesh and blood, walking out what it means to be a human being; kind of like the fleshing out of what’s possible. Inside each of us is this seething expression of life, of what…