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The Most Important Business Tips From Donald Trump
Today I found an email I had sent to my husband a couple of years ago – it contained tips from a Donald Trump book called ‘The Way to the Top’. All the tips are from Business Leaders – they are true classics in my opinion and worth considering often in good times and when we are being challenged.
With most communication happening via email nowadays – a quick review of your Inbox and Sent Items can be extremely rewarding. I have on average around five to seven thousand messages in my Inbox and about half that amount again in my Sent Items. When I do a ‘clean out’ I review each email and then hit the delete button.
Today I found an email I had sent to my husband a couple of years ago – it contained tips from a Donald Trump book called ‘The Way to the Top’. All the tips are from Business Leaders – they are true classics in my opinion and worth considering often in good times and when we are being challenged.
[BB Editor] I recommend printing this blog post and pinning it to your desk or wall and have a look at it a couple of times a day – there are so many awesome tips here for your business.
The Tips – In No Particular Order Of Preference
- Put yourself in your customer’s shoes
- Be leery of Loans – Borrow Money When You Can, NOT When You Need To
- Don’t worry about contracts – If you are dealing with bad people no contract will protect you!
- Follow Your Heart
- Only Results Count – don’t confuse effort with results!
- Trust but Verify
- Recipe for Success – Keep going, gather good people around you to do what you can’t and focus on your gift!
- Contribute to the Community
- During an Upturn – prepare for the downturn
- The Harder you work the luckier you get
- Make mistakes – Don’t be afraid to make calculated mistakes – you can always fix them. What’s important is to get the facts, make a decision – remember making no decision is in fact a decision
- There is no substitute for hard work
- Align your work with your values
- Be who you are all the time
- Imitate People you admire
- Be careful with whom you associate
- Bet on People not strategies
- Put your decisions through rigorous analysis
- Balance your Accounts – Anytime your output exceeds your input, your upkeep will always be your downfall. So NEVER spend more than you take in.
- Take care of the top line and the bottom line will follow
- Communicate with care
- Give your best to your work and your colleagues
- Think Big
- Go Beyond – do more than what is expected of you
- Let the Market Drive what you do
- Revenge does not make sense
- Remember your roots
- When there are 10 buyers and three puppies – every dog is the pick of the litter
- Stick with what you know – look at Trump he stuck with Real Estate and look where he is now – a Billionaire
Also in the Donald Trump Book are these TEN Simple Principles For Building A Successful Business:
- Go where the traffic isn’t
- You will never achieve more than you are willing to settle for
- The only currency that has finite limits is time – so spend it wisely
- You make your money when you buy, not when you sell
- Get in too late and get out too early (that is how I made my money says Trump)
- Do business with good people
- Be one of those good people and people will do business with you
- Serve the ultimate Boss – your customers
- Don’t worry about things you can not control
- If you review it – they will do it – monitor and review employee tasks and accomplishments in real time in order to ensure that everyone accomplishes their goals
