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Peter J. Daniels

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Peter J. Daniels
While coming from a poor dysfunctional family back-ground and suffering from ill health and dyslexia he never passed one grade at school. However, from this humble beginning he developed a deep faith in God and confounded the skeptics. At over seventy years of age he still aspires, works and looks like someone much younger.

Happily married to Robina for over 50 years he enjoys the love, friendship and support of a very close knit family with three children and eight grandchildren.

The mass media at times has called him an 'adrenalin charged salesman,' a ‘religious nut’ and a ‘battle scarred champion’ of a dozen crusades when he fought pornography.

The business community has said of him ‘he could motivate an Egyptian mummy to walk’ and yet others call him an ‘International Business Statesman’. Church leaders refer to him as a missionary to the business world and a merchant of hope, and speak widely of his generosity.

Books, magazines and newspapers print stories about his life, that is often featured on radio and television talk show and news reports. Schools and students throughout the world write essays about his life, his humble beginnings and his determination to succeed in whatever task he has before him. One newspaper said “he expects everything to be done yesterday and has an uncanny way of making sure that it is”.

He has received honors from universities, theological colleges, governments, business and humanitarian organisations from around the world.

Thousands flock to hear him speak wherever he travels across the globe and his books sell at a frantic pace. One of his presentations recorded on the subject of encouragement is attributed to have sold over one million copies.

He is a genius at creating simple business formulas to solve difficult problems and has spoken to more live audiences throughout the world than any other Australian.

The rise and rise of Peter J Daniels was painfully slow commencing fulltime menial work at thirteen years of age until he became a bricklayer and stonemason working piecework sometimes from 6am to 10pm seven days a week. The turning point in Peters life was when he became a born again Christian at a Billy Graham Crusade on May the 25th 1959 in South Australia. Not long after that event, he believed that God had given him two dreams. The first was to see how much money one human being could give away in their lifetime and the second, was to change the world for 300 years. In puirsuit of these dreams he purchased three dictionaries to learn words and practiced pronunciation and speech by listening to British broadcasters on radio who in those early days spoke impeccable English. Without a tutor or mentor he studied economics, politics, modern and ancient history, theology, law, philosophy and business.

He soon discovered that the mind was like a muscle and could be developed, and has now personally read over 5,000 biographies. Although he failed three times in business he never went bankrupt but persevered and met his commitments. For nearly two decades he built a thriving business in real estate in Australia with South-East Asian connections and finally sold out to follow other business pursuits.

In 1984 he launched his first book that was the catalyst of the World Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies which today, with a no debt philosophy, is one of the largest suppliers of Christian business education programs and books in the world.

[Excerpted from: https://www.facebook.com/Dr.PeterJDan...]

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