Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them.
When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience.
Surrounding yourself with creative, imaginative people is a good strategy for success whether you’re an entrepreneur seeking innovation or an artist looking for inspiration.
For the real winners, there are no finish lines.
Don’t wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
There’s a place in the world for any business that takes care of its customers-after the sale.
If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio.
The sale begins when the customer says yes.
Don’t water your weeds.
It’s the oldest, corniest piece of advice in the world but it still works. The strongest networks are built on friendship. Be a friend not only to the people in your network, but to the people who matter the most to the people in your network.
Be like the turtle. If he didn’t stick his neck out, he wouldn’t get anywhere at all.
Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life, with the possible exception of your kids.
It doesn’t matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.
A great accomplishment shouldn’t be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.
My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don’t keep score.
Deadlines aren’t bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it.
To me, job titles don’t matter. Everyone is in sales. It’s the only way we stay in business.
Ethical decisions ensure that everyone’s best interests are protected. When in doubt, don’t.
If you find yourself plagued by a recurrent worry, train yourself to think of something else. Your conscious mind can concentrate on only one thought at a time, and driving the negativity away will free you up to move forward again.
Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better.