Another Technique To Beat The Blues And Boost Your Productivity
“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the to.” – John Keats (1795-1821), letter to Benjamin Bailey For some time, I had been feeling pressed and anxious. It got bad last week. From the moment I stepped into the…
READ MOREBook Review: “I Can See You Naked,” Part 2
“Oratory is just like prostitution; you must have little tricks.” – Vittorio Emanuele Orlando In I Can See You Naked, Ron Hoffs key insight about public speaking is this: You are being asked to speak because someone believes you have something valuable to say to the audience, something that will…
READ MOREBook Review: “I Can See You Naked,” Part 1
“Ivry gr-reat orator ought to be accompanied by an orchesthry or, at worst, a pianist who wud play trills while th artist was refreshin himself with a glass iv ice wather.” – Finley Peter Dunne Today (and tomorrow), let’s take a look at I Can See You Naked, Ron Hoff’s…
READ MOREHow My Friend BM Became Rich And Famous
“Business is a good game lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.” -Nolan Bushnell (Atari founder) I wish you could know my friend BM. He might inspire you. He certainly inspires me. Im sure you would like him. Hes very nice, very self-effacing.…
READ MOREIs The Way To Success One Or Many Paths?
“The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who keeps the wrong one.” -American proverbToday were going to talk about something very important a key question about wealth. Is it better to spend your time on one moneymaking activity or many?Many success gurus argue that the…
READ MORE3 Ways To Listen More Effectively
“The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.” – Zeno of Citium, quoted by Diogenes I’ve been listening to an audiotape program about listening. It makes the argument that you can increase your personal power by…
READ MOREThe Early to Rise Golden Rule of Customer Service
A commercial on the radio this morning caught my interest. It was for a men’s clothing store. All the usual claims were made, but one was phrased in a way I hadn’t heard before: “We treat all of our customers as if they were the only one.”
READ MORETaking The Big Leap
“The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.” – Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the SoulSometime in your business career, you will have a chance to do something or sell something and it will be obvious to you that you are looking at…
READ MOREDon’t Underestimate the Importance of Education
”Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.” – AristotleStudies show, and experience confirms, that of all the factors that determine financial status in life, education is primary. High-school graduates out-earn dropouts, and college grads do considerably better than workers with only…
READ MOREA Very Rich Guy You Never Heard About
“My wife and I were in the country a few weeks ago. We were standing in front of a wishing well and she fell in. I never dreamed those things worked.” – Milton Berle Sitting in the audience at a publishers convention a few years ago, Roy Reiman heard a…
READ MOREHow I Became A Movie Mogul
”Always do sober what you said youd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.” – Ernest Hemingway At the risk of humiliating myself and losing your attention entirely, I am going to tell you about a new venture I’ve gotten into. In my recounting, I will…
READ MOREE-Mail And Return Buttons
“Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.” – Michel de Montaigne I did it again. Copied a “sensitive” e-mail to the wrong person. Its soooo embarrassing. In what I thought was a confidential memo to my partners I characterized someones proposition as…
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