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Everyone who writes a book could probably write an entire book on the people they would like to acknowledge for contributing to their lives. At the end of the day as Charlie ‘Tremendous’ Jones says, “We are like the people we hang around, plus or minus 10%.”

As a result of my associations with the people listed below, I am who I am – because of their positive influences and the changes that they have assisted me to make in my life.

I was presenting at a seminar in Queensland and I was fortunate enough to meet a couple by the name of Ian and Teresa King. After spending time with them and getting to know them, they offered to assist me in my personal development and really shift my thinking. They did just that and helped me to think big, really big! They have been great mentors and guided me along, I thank them dearly and value their friendship.

My family, Mum, Dad, Andrew, Harry and Bailey. Fred Macinerney, for introducing my family and me to water ski racing in 1991. The association with Fred and the sport has brought many great friendships to both my family and me.

Dolf de Roos, Robert Kiyosaki, Gordon Green and Janny Pilarski, Richard Branson, Anthony Robbins, John Fitzgerald, Jim Rohn, John Burley, Stuart Wilde and John McGrath, Robert G. Allen, Brad Sugars and Denis Waitley. Thanks for sharing your knowledge to me via books, tapes and seminars. Everything you have taught me does work, either when investing financially or in life.

Brett Sands (World Barefoot Water-ski Champion).

The Hon. John Olsen (former Premier of SA). For all of the barefoot water-skiing we have done together. It is good to have a friendship with someone like yourself who displays such great leadership characteristics.

All the people who I have had the pleasure of barefoot water-skiing and water-skiing with over the years, including Kerry Phillips, Barton Williams, Mark and Tracy Webb, Aaron Lawson, Craig Bewley, Shannon Novaski, Mike Adi and all the Lane Racing Teams, The South Australian Barefoot Club, and my family and the thousand others who know who they are.

Thank you to Mark Edwy Smith, Phillip Chamberlin and Loren Watts, for the opportunity to be involved in their business – your book of the month and tape of the week is where this all began. To this day I still listen to your tapes of the week, there are too many lessons to list, but I owe you guys a lot of beers one day.

John Pennay (former World #1 Barefoot Water-ski Champion), Shane Rowlands, Bearsy, Darryl and Kate Foster, Webby, Jason, Carrie and Nicole, Mark Leaney, Ben and John Fitzsimmons, Peter and Debra Noble, Dad, Andrew, Shaggy and Ali, Lawson, Bewley, Micksta, Brett, Jodie and Lachlan Fort, JB, Kerry Phillips and Ian and Teresa King for being there for me, trusting me with your investment decisions and for being true friends.