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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.

[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