Character Or Of Character

He's gone from clerk to CEO twice. Mark is classic proof that the American dream is alive. And well, here's your host of Always in Fashion, Mark Weber. Mark Weber.

you don't have to agree. But there is a reason we don't like humans, and that's that little voice in my head, and I want to get it out of the way. I became a radio and podcast host and entertain and make no mistake about it, I have to hold your attention. My motives might be pure, get a lot of listeners, drive consumers to the sponsor's product, help the ratings for the station and the podcast network. But I decided on this personality. I came out from behind

the curtain. I forego being a recluse. I picked this style. I have to live with it. Now. I guess that little voice isn't through with me yet. But here's the frustration. Forty years climbing the ladder to the top of the corporate world PVH president, board member, CEO, no one would have ever called me a character. I wouldn't have made it eight years at LVMH, a CEO, member of the executive committee in Paris. Never a character style. Yes, was a scene, yes that I have a point of view, yes,

but a character. Never they would say I was a person of character. I wouldn't have been hired, I wouldn't have lasted a week. You are how you package yourself? Where have I heard, then, hmm? Being called a character now because I'm entertaining, because I'm promoting a show, I'm now a character. That it's not fair, Mark fairs for kids, Mark perception is reality. Well I don't accept it. Let me see those detractors who's so quick to call me

a character? Perform a radio show and podcasts with original content thirty two type pages preparing me for getting this stuff that organized, interesting and insightful, performed as well. Good luck. Now, I'm sure all of you out there are great at your jobs. I was great at mine, and if you're listening, you know I'm great at this third career. You have no idea how hard this is to do. Character few.

I've lived a life of being underestimated. I went from a good looking guy in a suit to a mature lightweight, questionable, incapable yep, all the while climbing the ladder, the small running back running through the offensive line, scoring the touchdown. And yes, those people were offensive, but I enjoy looking at them in my rear view mirror. The truth is disrespectful is disrespectful, regardless of how you package it. Sometimes I'll give it. It's innocent, sometimes it's arrogant, and it's

definitely not fair. But like so many things in life, managing disappointment could be your road to success, and I often looked at it as opportunistic. I was often disappointed. I questioned the behavior of my fellow humans. I never accepted anyone dissing me or downplaying my role in corporate America. I certainly never accepted anyone disrespect to me. But most importantly, I respected myself. I knew who I was, I knew what I knew. Being underestimated for me was a superpower.

I'll accept good looking guy in a suit if I must. At least I was good looking, even though you didn't think I had anything to go with it. But I knew when I opened my suit jacket unbuttoned my shirt that big Superman uniform was underneath it. But my uniform, my custom, was a logo with a big sea for confidence. So call me what you will, call me a character. I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I'm always happy, and there are lots of people who've benefited from Mark Weber

along the way. That's my boy, Mau. There we go. The voice in my head talking to me again tonight. I have some stories to explain. Can you imagine a forty year career of excellence. It can't possibly be summarized as he's a character. They don't get it. Can you imagine the finest sophisticated, luxury European company in the world putting up with a character that would be out of

character for them. I would bet the last word to describe me in that organization would be that I was and always am a serious, well thought out businessman with a track record of minimal mistakes. I put my record up against anyone. I'm well thought out. I'm understated considering the unintended consequences, always regarding my decisions. I was tough, very but fair a character. H I'll admit I was never boring. I have a personality. I smiled more than most.

I've lectured and tutored more than most as well. Where are the people who stand up and talk Mark Weber that way, I lived a life being underestimated. In hindsight, I'd haven't know the way, don't know if I would have made it if the people thought I was a person to be reckoned with Corporately, while the others killed each other off. They set up the blocking and tackling, and I found a way to run through the holes

from the backfield. I certainly was not boring. You couldn't help but see me, Yeah, good looking guy in the suit. Nothing upstairs except for those special few who recognized the simplicity in my execution, my uniform, the perfect tailoring, subtle colors, and peccable quality. Not so much standing out but being seen still. Often when I was in the room, the initiated would wait for those who they thought were the

decision makers. I'm standing. They never dreamed I had the substance, but as a young man, I often had a cadre of older executives that actually worked for me and took their direction from me. I was serious. I played to win. I played for all the marbles. Go figure. This is what I'm being said now, often after it was too late.

Then they saw me coming. Now that I'm irrelevant, Now that I can't defend my place in history, Now that I become an entertainer, and now that I seek sponsors and sponsorships, now that I have to put out front rather than behind the curtain, I'm a character. It's your fault. Hey, I almost get it if I didn't have a history, and you wipe the slate cleaning. Yeah, I'm different. The people that actually listen closely to the stories on the show, the lessons and the helping hand I offer, they'll find

my brilliance. I listen to you. I agree with every opinion you take. I get written to every week. Your tire show is about common sense. I never understood until I heard you say it. I read your book. I give it to my son to read. I give it to my daughter. She loved it. You say, once in your life you were brilliant. I hear brilliance every week. Where are those people, the quiet ones, the silent majority. I know how much it means to me to be appreciated.

But when I hear from the others, the snobs, the elitists, the boring, the uninformed, and the unwilling to consider that maybe they're not so smart and maybe they're not even in on the joke, this character gets pissed off. I've been called lots of things, arrogant, ego, maniac, self promoting, wrong, but I live with it. You can't be a leader without being seen and heard. You have to have an ego. You have to drive forward for that which you believe in.

Not easy for a guy who self defines himself as a recluse. I can tell you that when you hold him high rank, you must have character. You can be a character or a man of character. I chose the latter. Hmm, now a man of a peccable character. My lawyer, my co host, my son, Jesse Webber.

a chance, gets my respect. That's tonight. A character or of character? That's what I want to talk about, Jesse. You see the difference.

them from experts. In this case, Capital Murkey was an expert shirt maker and they can compete with anyone's price, and they would buy the Macy's label from Capitol Mercury, They'd sell to JC Penny, they'd sell to Nortchum. This celt in the entire community. The only difference was is that they weren't selling brands and if they were below the radar anyway, make a long story short. I had a very close friend business associated. He was the president

of a button company. His name was bud Winstrel, and bud Winstrel was one of those guys who saw me beyond the suits. Because when the time came to negotiate for shirt buttons, and the fact that I would not tolerate buttons that broke, and the fact that he'd have to go back to his factory and recommend to me only those buttons, he should be sure of that when people send their shirts out to be laundered and get hit by a hothead master press in those cleaning stores,

those buttons wouldn't crack from that intensive pressure. He learned what I was all about when we negotiated. One day he comes to me says to me, I have an opportunity for you. Capitol Murcury would like to talk to you. They have heard of you. I told them about you. They're looking for someone, and I think you would do well there. Why don't you go talk to him? I said, I love it here. I'm doing great here. He says, it's not about that. Mark. You're a young guy. You've

been here three years. As you prove to the company you're good. I think you'd have a great career here. But I assure you, if you went to Capitol Merkeley, they need you more than PVH doesn't. They'll pay you for it. So I went to Capitol Merkeley, and sure enough, overnight they more than doubled my salary. And as a young guy relatively starting out, I doubled my salary. It meant a lot to my wife and I and I

decided to join them. To my credit, when I announced my boss that I was leaving the company, a boss that thought the world of me, knew what I was capable of, was so disappointed that I was leaving. I said, look, I'm leaving for money, That's all there is to it. I recognize that you have a pay structure here that you can't pay me what these people are paying me. I will be back to this company this is where my home is. I want to come back, and as soon as it's feasible for me and for you to

work that through, we'll work it out. Just look at me as taking a leave of absence, and however long you need me to stay before I leave, I'll do that. And I stayed more than a month. I stayed five weeks, giving them time to find my replacement. Is that a character? Was that a man of character? I ask you? So I went to this company, Capital Mercury, And the reason I'm telling the story is the obvious character versus not. There were two people that I came in contact with.

One was a loud, boisterous seller, part owner in the company. Thought he knew everything about the world, that had no disrespect for anyone but his customers, and whenever I needed to talk to him, I dreaded it. He was always so unpleasant, always so talked down to me. I'll never forget one particular time I had designed. I was a designer at that time, a range of casual sports shirts. They were big shirts, that was the style at the time. Capitol Mercury had never ventured in to that area I

had experienced with my formal life. I designed a handful of them. That sales team showed them to J. C. Penny. JC Penny wanted to buy one hundred thousand units of these things. We had were negotiating the price. I think we're twenty five cents off, and I had to go talk to the SALESMANA just guy. Penny's in the showroom. I walked to his desk. He's on the phone. I'm

standing by his desk. He turns around, puts his back to me while I'm standing at his doorway, and I said, I'm sorry to interrupt, and he puts his finger out of my faces. Don't you dare ever interrupt me when I'm on the phone. And who do you think you are standing out of my desk waiting for me like this? Get lost? That's so mean. It's not even mean, it's disrespectful. He had no idea that in the showroom, I'm sitting there with an order and the sales executives. So I

had to go back to the showroom. I walked over one of the cell you have to excuse me. I pulled him out, and he went over and said to them blah blah blah. He came into the showroom shook J. C. Penny's hand, did the deal, and left and never apologized to me. You want to talk character or the lack thereof, that's a great example. And I won't mention him by name because I had only even I want to give

him the glory of being on the show. However, there was another gentleman in that company, one of the founders and owners. His name was Donald Cooper. May he rest in peace. Donald Cooper was a gentleman. He was respected and revered by all. As a founder, he came up with the concept of how to build this company, and he and another partner built a hundred million dollar company on their own with good people. And I'll never forget.

When the time came that I did want to go back to van Usen, I had to go in and resign to him. I asked for an appointment. They got me in to see me immediately. I said, thank you for seeing me. Mister Cooper said, Mark, sit down, let's talk. What can I do for you? I said, mister Cooper, I have to tell you that the entire stay that I'm here, I was there for three months, everyone has treated me brilliantly. I really respect the company. I really, really enjoy my time here. But I have to tell

you that I missed the van using company. I should have never left. I considered it home when I left. They didn't want me to leave, and I miss it. I missed the people, I missed the brand, I miss everything about the company, and I decided to leave. Donald Cooper got up from his desk, walked around his desk. I stood up. I didn't know what he's going to do, and he shook my hand and said, I can't tell you,

Mark how happy I am for you. I congratulate you on your decision, walked away back to his desk, sat down and looked at me and said, now, how can I convince you to stay? Now? When you want to talk about a man with character, that's a man with character. And I learned that lesson from him, and over the course of time anyone who's ever resigned, I behaved the same way he did. There's one other thing I learned along the way. You never want to leave people understanding

where they are with you. And because of that, every interview I ever held with anyone I ever interviewed, at the end of the interview, I did a summary. I was not interested I told them, so they can move on and not go home and wait hopefully for something that wasn't happening. If I wasn't sure, I told them I wasn't sure, and of course, if I was interested, I negotiated to conclusion. This is a story tonight. I'm a character or I'm a person of character. I'll take

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I had a lot to overcome when I think back now, I had the worst Brooklyn accent in a world of preps graduates from all over the country. I had to lose as much as I could of that accent, so at least I sounded a little bit more worldly in a global company. Then, of course I kind of look good and suits, so right away I was typecast like a dumb blonde, with all due respect to dumb blondes.

As a good looking guy in a suit, I was taken seriously except by a select few who work closely with me, who heard what I had to say, who watch my work ethic and understood how hard I was and how serious I was willing to be work and get the job done. They didn't underestimate me, but the rest of the world did, and I learned to live

with it. Now having said it, I wouldn't have it any other way because nobody saw me coming and I loved it, and I as much as I would think it was an affront at times, I also thought it was cute that I could standing in a room and nobody knew who I really was.

I brought tears, I brought laughter, I brought hope. I brought the American dream to all of these people, and one guy called me a character. Afterwards. I wanted to strangle them. All right, that's not it. Wow, I can't believe what this guy did. And by the way, you go out and make an address for an hour and a half and entertained the people. You pompous anyway, all.

was thirty four years old. I was president of the van Us and Shirt Company. I had one hundred salesmen working for me at that time. Because this was before all retails consolidated and moved all their offices to New York, to Seattle, to Texas, or to Little Rock, Arkansas, or even Charlotte, North Carolina. There were offices of these independent stores. O'Neills was in Ohio, Kaufman's was in Pittsburgh, and on

and on. There were hundreds of different stores. So you need a big sales force, and my head of sales was a powerhouse. He had that personality. I would call him a character. You went out to dinner withinmmy wed go and introduce him to the chef, and you have chef make special dinners for all of us. He was an amazing guy. And one day he said to me, we have to get on a plane. We have to go to O'Neill's and make company store. And I said, who are we meeting with him? He said, we're going

to meet the chairman of the board of O'Neill's. He wants to meet our president. You're new to the job. He wants to meet him. We do a lot of business. He wants to meet you. Son. Off we get We flew out there and we went to his office from his assistant sitting outside, big desk, big office, and we introduced ourselves. She knew my friend the sales manager exec VP, and she let us in and said to the boss, these the people from van Usen. He said, oh great. He

kept writing on his desk. So we sat down head of sales, my guy, me and we had our regional sales manager there while this guy was doing his paperwork. So this is going on now for five minutes. It's getting close to ten minutes. And finally I said to the salesman, he asked, what's going on. What's going on? So he gets up, he says, mister chairman, we're here, We're ready to begin. And he looked and he said, I'm just waiting for your president to show up. And

little did he know it was me. And I loved it now that I wore as a badge of honor because he was shell shocked to see a guy so young the president of the company. And I'd like to believe for my own Ah, I'm not gonna be humble. I know at the end of the conversation he understood why I was the president. We talked about deliveries. We talked about prices, we talked about positioning, we talked about the Asia and importing. We talked about all these things.

And I knew it called that's why I was president. But the fact that he never even dreamed this guy in this suit in this case. It was cute, it was fun, it was non intentional, and I loved it. Going back a while, I remember within the company there was another independent entrepreneur, a guy named Danny Kaisman, who built a out ofwear factory in Vansville, Illinois. Wow, how

do I remember that? Anyway, he asked my boss and I to fly out with him walk through the factory because he wanted to sell out ofwear even though he was owned by Phillips Venues in Corporation. He thought the van Us and Company could buy his out ofwear and sell a lot of it through our channel, so we would sell shirts and sportswear in his out ofwear. We went to look at his factory and it was impressive.

I had been at this point to a number of factories, not very many in the United States because they were closing faster than wee can import. And here I was. We walked through. I knew the questions to ask, which sewing areas to walk up to ask questions of the sewers. I understood packaging. I was as I say now, and I'll always say, I don't know if I was smart, that's for others to decide, but I know I was well trained. And at the end of this, he was looking at me and he was saying to me, hmm,

he's looking at me different. That night we had dinner. We were talking about a lot of things, and finally he looks at my boss and he says to my boss, you understand who this guy is. And my boss, Robert Solomon, who's one of my great mentors of all times, he said, yeah, I know he is, but you didn't. He says, you're right. He said, I heard about him in the compare. I heard he was a decent guy. I heard he's smart. You know. I have to say, Mark, Yeah, good looking guy.

You wear all these fancy clothes, I said, They're not really fancy if you look him, they're well made. I'm wearing a navy blue shuit, a white shirt, a navy tie, black shoes. Yes, I'm wearing French cuffs. You could say, but it's not fancy. It's just elegant. He says. You know, Mark, you're right, but he's That's what I want to say to you. I said, Now, I understand who you are. I understand that while everyone else is writing you off, while you're not being taken seriously, you're going to end

up running this company someday. I am convinced of it. And I would just say to you, continue the way you're going, speak very softly, but carry that big stick. And I thought it was remarkable and I loved it as time went on. He was right. People weren't taking me serious. When they started to they realized there was someone to be reckoned with. They realized that I was serious,

that I was willing to outwork anyone. More importantly than outworking anyone, I was learning everything that was to learn. If you were the head of information technology, when you showed up in a room or a corporate function, I would sit next to the head of information technology. Explain to me how our computer system works. Explain to me how we're going to ship and fill in inventory when

we have basics on the floor. If you have a basic white shirt and you sell out in size fifteen and a half, how do I get it back on the floor. I was learning everything. Most people didn't even know the questions to ask, and yet I was asking them. And I was someone to be reckoned with. And I started to grow very rapidly at the expense of other people. There's no flukes in business. Those who people have to get to the top will get there. The system works.

It's always been fair. I always found it. This is the American dream. Everyone's given a fair chance. Those that excel excel, And in spite of the fact that perhaps people wouldn't take me seriously. They had no alternative when they heard me speak, and they watched me work. As time went on, I'll never forget I was so young, you know again, I was thirty four years old. I was a president of big company. As time went on, I started to become a corporate executive and my boss,

the president of the corporation, had decisions to make. And one day he looked at me and said, I'm never going to hire anyone who doesn't work for you. And no matter what their job is, no matter what their age is, Mark, They're going to report to you. They may not like it at first, but I am confident that once they're reporting to you, they're going to understand why. But you have to step up. You have to do the right thing. You have to be professional at every turn.

You have to understand that these people's futures, in their livelihood and large part will depend on you if they work for you. You have to be tough or fair. You have to understand that they have lives, they have families. They have to be able to have time at work and time at home. They have to know when they walk in your office that they're going to be a

serious guy sitting across the table helping them problems. But I'm going to do this and they'll never be a question ever again about who you are in this company. So I say to you after that, when I'm minding my own business, I'm on the radio, hopefully teaching you lessons, making you better. If you replay this show slowly for your significant other, your sons, your daughters, your father, your grandma, I don't care. There's a lot to be learned about

what I just said. Now. It's cleverly disguised as a conversation, but if you're drilled down and listen, there's some real, real important stuff in this show. And of course I've been on for seven years, so give me a break. Don't call me a character. I'm a man of character. I'll take a break back in a minute.

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and we've been hearing all these stories. But what's interesting is that in my current career, I'm kind of feeling some of the things that you've been going through For me. I'm not a traditional broadcaster. I didn't go to journalism school. So when I'm trying to audition for these jobs as an anchor, or a reporter or a host, I'm met with such skepticism. I met with such Well, you know you didn't go you didn't start off in a local market. You didn't go to this school. I said, yeah, but

I'm an attorney. I've been anchoring for the past seven years on law and crime and these other projects. Give me a shot, give me a shot, see what I can do. And every time I do something new, I always have to deliver and hit it out of the park. I have to prove people wrong. I say to them, give me the shot. I won't let you down. So it's this kind of underestimating because I didn't I don't have the traditional pedigree like other people.

believe you. You're never happy. And throughout the entire course of my career senior vice president, executive vice president, president division, then until I got up to president of the company, till I got my board seat, I was never really satisfied. It was hard to enjoy because every step along the way was a fight and just the way it is. And sure you're seeing it, and it really bothers me to see you go through it. But it's part of

life and you're doing just fine. So I guess that's pretty cool and of itself.

to talk to you about my stay at LVMH. I can assure you that the finest luxury company in the world, with some of the smartest people who've went to the smartest colleges in the business world, to prepare them for a career at luxury at LVMH hired me and made me part of their team. You've heard, I've had all kinds of titles. They sat on the executive committee in Paris, I was a CEO in the States. They wouldn't have

done it unless I came across the right way. And during the course of my time, it was really fascinating how I behave there and why I had what I thought it was and a great relationship. I went there for the honor of working there. My idea was whatever I could do to help them is what I wanted to do. It wasn't about what was good for me. I wasn't looking for money. I already had all the money I would need, and of course they were more than fair. But I wasn't about money. I also felt

the responsibility of being an American executive. You know, in the past, I was an American executive. I traveled all over the world. I was an American. I walked into a room, I had that American smile, American swagger on my face. I did what I wanted to do as as a representative of an American company in the world.

But here I was an American executive withinside a French company, and my responsibility was different now because I was representing Europeans and I had to change my divena and it was very, very aware that I had to play by European rules and by the way and the culture of the European company. And I did. And I'd like to tap myself on the shoulder because I was really smart about it and I knew what was important. Let's go back PDH. We had a management team of twenty six people.

Of those twenty six people, this is not the board, this is the internal group of people. Of those twenty six people, I would say five maybe six were exceptional. At LVMH. I never met anyone who wasn't exceptional. It was an incredible group of people. And you should not be surprised when you consider again largest luxury company in the world. When I was there, they had sixty two brands.

They have brands from making ships, they had newspaper brands, They have all the finest luxury brands, Viton Di Yorgovanci, they owned Sephora, they bought Tiffany. This is an incredible company, so you shouldn't be surprised at the caliber of people, and I was aware of it, and I tempered myself to be aware of it. I wanted them to see me as a man of character. I virtually never asked for anything of myself until it was funny. I'd been with the company three years, and in three years time,

there was never a conversation about a raise. So one day I said to the managing director, the president of the company, you know, I never mentioned it to you, but if I had an executive that I really liked and was doing a good job and he was performing, I might want to consider giving him a raise. And he looked at me and he said, I've been here three years, I've never said a word. He laughed, and he says, you're right. And of course I got a raise,

a nominal one. The French don't give money the way we do. But my relationship with them was based on recognizing what kind of company it was, what kind of people I was dealing with, and the fact that this was company of substance and of character. And on a week I'm discussing someone calling me a character. It has me incensed, but I'm calming down because I'm getting to tell you this story with that as a backdrop, I'll come back, is he a character or is he a

person of character? Back in a minute.

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gives hope, and he gives information brilliantly. I've been watching the NBA Finals and someone called out on one of the shows Steve Kerr's conversation about in the huddle on the final game of one of the championships, he played alongside Michael Jordan. I want to play it for you now.

impeccable tastes. I'm noticed when I walk into a room. I can be charming when I want to be, but I do it in spurts. I don't want to be very often. My favorite line is when I'm talking to someone, I've run out of charming, It's now time to leave you. I've worked odd, I've distinguished myself. I'm more unique than commonplace. I've treated people fairly and have helped many succeed. I've

always made the companies i've worked for successful. I've made the moneymakers, and I've made the brand stronger for me being there. I have a close family, and I know I'm appreciated. If this is a character, so be it. I'm a character, but I do know I could put my head in the pillow at night and sleep soundly. Good night.