One-Minute Insights

• Associate with people you admire and can learn from
• Keep a notebook to write down the wisdom that you read, hear and learn and distill that learning into 1 minute insights
• Good life is built on strong values, such as integrity, love, honesty, and purposeful work.
• You never have to cheat to win.
• What is right is more important than who is right.
• You will be the same year after year, except the people you meet and the books you read
• You can get what you want in life by helping others to get what they want
• Lead with your ears
• Success occurs when opportunity and preparation meet
• It’s not that who you know who counts, it’s who knows you and what they think of you count.
• When you see moment impacting your destiny, seize the opportunity.
• Humility help you to be open to learning and growing of your field of expertise.
• Take care of your numbers and your number will take care of you.
• To create a successful business, you must first master the basics.
• For mentor to be effective, you must be enthusiastic and committed protege
• Always visualize your desired outcome ahead of time.
• In sales or any other business, you are constantly on stage, so act like it.
• Ambitions is the fuel that can drive life changing event
• Identify what you are passionate about doing and look to do more of it.
• Don’t be afraid to dream big.
• Don’t quit your day job until you have some success under your belt
• If nobody would pay you for your passion, then you have a hobby, not a career.
• On the entrepreneur path, few people come into your life without a reason.
• Becoming a successful entrepreneur and having a spouse are not mutually exclusive
• When it comes to finding a life partner,  character and value trumps personality and looks
• To build a great marriage, especially when you are an entrepreneur, make sure you spend time together outside of meals and sleeping.
• You and your spouse are a team, act like one.
• Too many people dream too small.  Remember you will never achieve more than you think you can.  So create a big dream. 
• When opportunity knocks, seize it.
• Never let your expenses outstrip your revenues
• Don’t be a banker of your customer, timely collection of invoices are crucial.
• Your customers are your company’s lifeblood.  They pay the bills. 
• Nurture your people, they make it all happen.  Without them, you have no company.
• Unless you want to do all the work, you have to think of ways to come up with new sources of revenues. 
• If you focus only on managing cost, your business will never grow.
• Don’t be afraid to seek advices when your business goes to a new level.
• Making a profit is alway a necessity if you want to stay in business.
• As an entrepreneur, the secret of success is to generate CASH, CASH, CASH.  Without good cash management, you will never make it as an entrepreneur.  
• Profit is the applause that you get for taking care of your customer and creating a motivating environment for your people.
• Look for moment of truth of your customers to create the kind of experience you want them to have.
• Listen to your customers, discovering their ideas for improving the customer experiences can make your company’s vision and service even better. 
• Don’t create a company of ducks, let your people soar like eagle to deliver superior eagle service.
• Working people today want a partnership relationship, not a top down hierarchy.
• Everyone should be encouraged to be a leader.
• An effective performance management system help people win rather than rating and berating them. 
• The best management includes day to day coaching that catches people doing thing rights and redirect their efforts when they are off base. 
• Work as if life is about getting A’s
• Passionate people and loyal customers drive success in your organization.
• Long term success is about more than making tomorrow’s number
• Relationship can deteriorate when they aren’t nourish.
• A strength taken to an extreme can become a liability.
• Keep your priority in order.  Work to balance your business life with the rest of your life
• Continuously to seek the wisdom of your mentors.
• It’s better to patiently implement a solid business strategy than rapidly pushing for growth.
• The wrong leader can send you off to directions you don’t want to go.  The right leader at the right time can help steer things in the right directions.
• To live a happy and fulfill life, be generous with your wealth, time and talent. 
• Giving can be much more rewarding than receiving.
• We all leave legacies.  Be intentional about making a positive difference with yours.
• You can’t predict the good that can get from helping and forgiving someone.

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