meet yourself. Most people don't know themselves deep enough to figure out their own plusses and minuses and act on them. Every person has the potential to achieve success, but it begins from self realization.
I would like to meet the person who have a failed startup on his account and trying the next time... many people don't even have the courage to start the first time.
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know."
It's me. On my second start-up now, and certainly learned a lot from the first one. Don't think you'd get that much from meeting me though - why not just start your own start-up, fail, then start again? Then you can have conversations with your ideal person-to-meet all day long for free!
As one who has failed before, I appreciate your comment. I've been involved in a few successes and a few failures, and your quote is poignant because of the number of people involved in these failures who took nothing away from it except to blame others, and that's not learning.
Another good one from Seth. I'd add that one of the best ways to meet the kind of people who want to help you is to be helpful yourself. It's the whole "giver's gain" thing. The more you put yourself out there and try to help folks, the more they'll want to help you too.
"Years ago, I went to the AOL partner's conference. I'm no runner (unless someone is chasing me) yet I signed up for the early morning run because I knew Steve Case, CEO of AOL, would be running. I ran with him for twenty minutes, almost killed myself".
Seth Godin the Movie has light comedy potential. A shaven headed Jim Carey for the lead?
