On Business
(Now this ain't my money, just a picture I found on the net. I just think about how it would feel to be able to just go in my "Money Room", or the vault and grab a stack and keep it movin. But hey this will be one day because I am Living Theory.)
"Business is the art of getting someone else's money." -Unknown
Business is something that we all should understand. We all have to do something to survive, whatever that may be. And we all spend money, whether we made it our not. So in that manner we all should know more about the aspects of business than we do.
A lot of the things that we feel we need, or were told we need, we really don't. But it is in the interest of business to get you to feel as such. But as living breathing human beings there are certain things we most defiantly need and thus is here your foot can be put in the door to get your business started.
If you have any talents or skills they can potentially be turned into profit.
And as an adage that I've come to follow is that "The game is to be sold, not told."
So in my many efforts to educate, I am also here to emancipate myself from my given situation with my own talents.
I'm just now learning the art of business and the art of selling one's self. I'm turning myself into a product. There is only one so the value will remain high. There are no duplications, copies, or clones. Just one. What I got can't be bottled up, packaged, mass produced nor can it be bought out. I think like Oprah and many other of the great pioneers whom have changed their lives and thus the world because of it.
So when I get to where I know I already am. Look out...
The information on this page and its subsequent pages, are geared towards the business aspect of life, but all of these principles can be applied to life in general. Look for the connection between your everyday life and how a business (a successful business) is run.
7 Simple Principles of Building a Successful Business
Balance your Accounts
Pay attention to people
Don't worry about contracts
Align your work with your values
Investigate future bosses
The 24hr Rule
Business Quotes
Business Books
Balance your Accounts
Pay attention to people
Don't worry about contracts
Align your work with your values
Investigate future bosses
The 24hr Rule
Business Quotes
Business Books
Quick Tips:
- Take care of the customer and everything else will fall into place.
- Communicate with care (Be careful of what you say and how you say it.)
- Delayed Gratification: Recognize the rewards of success may come late
- Strive to satisfy the customer.
- Borrow money when you can, not when you need to.
- Make mistakes: "There is no substitute for experience." -Donald Trump
- Follow your heart: "...be passionate about your work because it will make your life so much more enjoyable in the long run." -Dian N. Bark
- Work with good people: "Keep going, gather good people around you to do what you can't, and focus on your gift."
- Imitate people you admire: Pay attention to what you like and don't like in how people handle other people and business situations.
- Be careful with whom you associate: Choose your friends, business associates and mentors wisely
- Put your decisions through rigorous analysis. Ask yourself what is the best possible outcome and what is the worst possible outcome given the situation.
- Be who you are at all times.
- Let your market drive what you do: Identify your target audience, your prime customers, satisfy them and they will carry your the rest of the way
- Go above and beyond your mark: "Doing only what is expected of you will only result in mediocrity and stagnation."
- To get the best you must do the best.
- Don't confuse efforts with results. Sometime your best, or someone else's best still isn't enough. Only results count.
- Do your homework: Do your own research. Make sure you know, not just have been told its so.
- Trust but verify.
