March 2004

Quote: Donald Trump on Entrepreneurship

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“Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.” – Donald Trump, “Trump: Art of the Deal” P.S. Trump’s new book, How To Get Rich, is excellent. On par with Trump: The Art of the Deal which has been one of my ...

Seth’s Blog: Maybe I’m just cranky

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Moved to Time And Energy Vampires.

How To Relaunch A Product Or Service

March 31

From Harvard Business School via BusinessPundit comes this article about turning around a product or service. I’d change #4 to “Have a dominant share of advertising with an acceptable ROI.” For a company like Colgate-Palmolive, maybe it’s not an issue. For the small and midsize businesses I work with, advertising for the sake of advertising ...

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Time And Energy Vampires

March 31

Seth Godin observes in “Maybe I’m just cranky” the demand on his time and assistance from people who have no relationship with him — forget a paying relationship — not a relationship AT ALL. In my experience Seth is dead-on accurate with his observations. I love helping people as much as the next guy, particularly ...

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Business Disaster – “Yes (Wo)Man Incest”

March 30

The always excellent A Penny For… tipped me off to a blog by Mark Cuban, the wildly successful owner of the Dallas Mavericks (among other things.) He did an excellent post about The Passion of Business and the Business of Passion. Well worth a read. There is one thing in particular I want to comment ...

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