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Entrepreneurs must click with other people

by Rick Baker
On Mar 30, 2011
I look at entrepreneurship success this way…
 
Entrepreneurship success has 2 components:
  1. the tangible wealth – money and what money can buy
  2. the feelings of self-worth & the quality relationships with other human beings.
Few people are fully satisfied by money alone.
 
Deep down, you know that.
 
But, you will be tempted to dis-remember it. I say dis-remember to make the point – you will not forget people are more important than money, however, that fact can be buried during the heat of entrepreneurial battles.
 
And – that’s when problems start.
 
That’s when self-esteem suffers.
 
That’s when success, if it comes, is bittersweet.
 
That’s when success can not fill the ‘wanting’ that drives entrepreneurs to carry on.
 
Much has been written about how special people connections can generate amazing success stories. As one example, I would recommend ‘Click’ by Ori & Rom Brafman.
 
Dedicate time to understanding what it means to click.
 
To succeed as an entrepreneur you must click with other people.

Sales Tweet #183

by Rick Baker
On Mar 30, 2011
Sales Tweet #183 "It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." Mark Twain
 
The Thinking Behind the Sales Tweet
I am fascinated by skilled public speakers. What value for their audiences! And, Mark Twain, with that amazing wit of his…provides a very important message with this quote. Here is another you can apply to public speaking: Abraham Lincoln – "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

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