In a way, it’s kinder, as well. While the temptation is to say, “I’ll confer with my colleagues and get back to you,” this will eventually come back to haunt you and waste more of your most valuable resource. Time. -How to get rich, p.130 Continue reading It’s usually better to leave no doubt in your visitor’s mind if you’re not interested in their project or idea.
-How to get rich, p.129 Continue reading When you stop listening, you stop learning
Ex: If you have a successful monthly magazine, for instance, and then launch a weekly in the same category, you will inevitably weaken sales of your original title. So should you launch the weekly? YES! A thousand times yes! Why? Because if you don’t launch the weekly, your rivals will do it for you. You will be left with a damaged monthly and no weekly. -How to get rich, p.124 Continue reading Strangling your own baby, in order to grow, is far more common than you might think.
No matter how good your idea, how fierce your resolve and how lucky you are in the early days, you must prepare for the eventuality. It will come. It always comes. -How to get rich, p.123 Continue reading Eggs being what they are and the world being what it is, they will sometimes break.
Do not be slave to them, but when your instincts are screaming, Go! Go! Go! then it’s time for you to decide whether you really want to be rich or not. You can’t get rich by painting numbers. You can only do it by becoming a predator, by waiting patiently, by remaining alert and constantly sniffing the airand by bringing massive, murderous force to bear upon your prey when you pounce. -How to get rich, p.122 Continue reading Trust your instincts
Easy, that is, compared with giving birth, or raising children, or pressing on a parent’s doorbell at midnight to tell them their child has died in an accident. If people can do this, you can certainly become rich. But remember this rule once you are rich and powerful, many people have accomplished far greater and harder things than you. Stay humble, stay polite. -How to get rich, p.118 Continue reading This business of piling up wealth is an easy business.
This is best done in daylight, under rigorous examination (Three o’clock in the morning is a difficult time to confront any such messengers.) Write down your doubts and fears.Examine them.Hold them uo to the light.Suck the wisdom out of them and discard their husks in the trash. -How to get rich, p.117 Continue reading Doubts can and should be confronted, as should fear.
It is as brutal and as black and white as that. -How to get rich, p.117 Continue reading Without self-belief nothing can be accomplished. With it, nothing is impossible.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. We may detest arrogance, yet isn’t it true that we admire it a little, too? Even though arrogance is a poor, shabby thing compared with rooted self-belief. It is an imitation of the real thing. -How to get rich, p.115 Continue reading Self-belief is a priceless asset
You must identify talent. Then you must move heaven and earth to hire it. You must nurture it, reward it properly and protect it from being poached. If necessary, dream up a new project. Better still, get the talent to dream it up. -How to get rich, p.107 Continue reading What talent seeks, as often as not, is the chance to prove itself and the opportunity to excel.
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