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Feature Alum: Jeff Schmitt
1976 B.S.B.
Owner and President, Jeff Schmitt Auto Group, Fairborn, Ohio
"I'm the luckiest guy in the world because I am doing
exactly what I want to... right where I want to do it."
Schmitt was first steered into the car sales business when he was 14 and a family friend said he could have her '57 DeSoto if he could get it running. He did, and then sold it for $75. Today, he's in the driver's seat of Fairborn's oldest established auto dealership as owner and president of the Jeff Schmitt Auto Group.
His former partner and friend, Jack Huelsman, helped set Schmitt on the road to success and Wright State helped him navigate. "Wright State taught me how to manage people," he says. The company won General Motors' prestigious Genuine Leaders Award for sales and service, an honor he credits to his team of 104 employees. His children, Stefanie and Jay, are now on the road to success, too, as current students at Wright State.
Favorite Quote: "Do something: lead, follow, or get out of the way." Thomas Paine
Last Book Read: Straight from the Gut, Jack Welch and John A. Byrne
Future Plans: To keep doing what I am doing forever, for as long as I can do it. I'm not someone who is looking forward to retiring. I have waited so long to get to this point that I want it to last as long as possible.
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