“Be a Flea, not a Bull or a Bear. Don t delay, retire anyway. Trading is NOT a four letter word. Buy carefully, sell aggressively. Don t mark duds while drinking. When your plan fails, change it. Don t be slow, don t be greedy. Don t be obtuse with a machine gun pointed at you. There s still time to build wealth and retire well. The Stock Market Flea: Lessons from the Front”
“Present your product and service simple and direct. Eliminate senseless small talk that takes up valuable time.”
“If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people. But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people… Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavors that you could never otherwise pursue”
“The commitment gap is the massive distance between “yes” and “maybe”
“Business is love made visible, membangun bisnis adalah perwujudan cinta yang sebenarnya; cinta kepada sesama manusia; cinta terhadap alam semesta dan penciptanya. Business profit doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give. Keuntungan bisnis bukan berasal dari apa yang kita peroleh, tapi dari apa yang telah kita berikan. Ini tak hanya berlaku dalam dunia bisnis, tapi juga merefleksikan sisi terbaik manusia. Ya, seni terindah dari sisi kemanusiaan adalah kedermawaan hati, yang tak menuntut ditilik manusia lain. (244)”
“Let s face it. We live in a command-based system, where we have been programmed since our earliest school years to become followers, not individuals. We have been conditioned to embrace teams, the herd, the masses, popular opinion -- and to reject what is different, eccentric or stands alone. We are so programmed that all it takes for any business or authority to condition our minds to follow or buy something is to simply repeat a statement more than three or four times until we repeat it ourselves and follow it as truth or the best trendiest thing. This is called programming -- the frequent repetition of words to condition us how to think, what to like or dislike, and who to follow.”
“Take the wrong route sometimes and make fool out of yourself. Laugh at your mess ups because it will all become a funny story one day.”
“I love the word dream. For some, it’s something that’s completely unattainable, yet for others, completely attainable. Choose your definition wisely.”
“In somebody’s mind, some upper-level suit that was looking at the bottom line and all those red numbers, it made more sense to unload five employees who collectively made a hundred thousand a year and ruin five lives, than it did to get rid of one job-redundant, mid-level manager earning the same amount.”
“In business, people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Maybe you re too used to that. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else s situation as you are about your own.”
“People speak broken Swahili on purpose. Business people for instance will speak Sheng – a mixture of Swahili and English – because that’s what people want to hear. And what is the government doing? They speak broken Swahili most of the time. Swahili is getting lost and I am really sorry for the future generations.”
“In Networking never underestimate anyones connection potential. Sometimes even a small office helper can connect you to the Business Owner !”
“When starting a relationship in Business or Personal Be in it to win it.Be present,be consistent and remind YOUR focus of your desire.~bns”
“Great selling involves helping people to make great buying decisions.”
“Customers get exactly what they need, while you hit your sales targets and become incredibly successful – fair deal.”
“Why do customers (and that includes you and me) find it so difficult to recall more than a couple of occasions when they felt that they were treated exceptionally by the salespeople who dealt with them?”
“Earning the Right is a commitment to be the sales professional that your customer really needs”