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14/11/2025

What’s the single most important thing to deal with when running a business?
Cash flow?
Sales?
Marketing?
Accounting?
Competition?
Staffing?
Growth?
Margins?
The answer is all of them, except you can’t deal with everything at once.
Robert Herjavec

18/02/2025

In any business deal, don't be greedy.
Don't assume everyone else is stupid.
If you're feeling smarter than everyone else in that table, chances are you are the idiot in the deal.

03/10/2024

People are driven by misery into revolution and brought back to misery by revolution.

07/06/2024

The Blue Dot Effect.
The better things get, the more we perceive threats where there are none and the more upset we become.
For example, if everyone stopped killing each other, we wouldn’t necessarily feel good about it. We would just get equally upset about the more minor stuff.

Dean Rhodes.The man who missed opportunity after opportunity. Rhodes met Dave Thomas long before the restaurateur opened...
23/04/2024

Dean Rhodes.
The man who missed opportunity after opportunity. Rhodes met Dave Thomas long before the restaurateur opened his first Wendy's. Rhodes admitted that he always knew the young Thomas would "someday do something big." But when given the opportunity to invest in Wendy's, he didn't. Later, Rhodes met Colonel Sanders and had an opportunity to buy stock in his company KFC, before it went national. But he turned that down as well because he didn't agree with some of the colonel's ideas. When Rhodes was in the restaurant equipment business, he often had equipment salesmen in his office trying to sell him on their machines. One of them was Ray Kroc. Rhodes admitted that Kroc was a pleasant person. However, he chose not to invest in the little hamburger stand called McDonald's.
A few years later, on a cruise, he met an attorney from the Pacific Northwest who suggested that Rhodes invest in his son's new computer company. It had a funny name: Microsoft. Rhodes declined.

An example of what can go wrong when decisions are made on the basis of poor information is evident in the purchase of R...
22/04/2024

An example of what can go wrong when decisions are made on the basis of poor information is evident in the purchase of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.
Volkswagen and BMW battled each other to purchase Rolls-Royce from Vickers PLC. And Volkswagen won the battle, paying $780 million for the luxury auto-making company. But after the purchase was finalized, the buyers made a shocking discovery. Volkswagen owned the company, but not the rights to the name Rolls-Royce, which is synonymous with luxury cars around the world. The license for the name, it turned out, belonged to another company: Rolls-Royce PLC, an aerospace company. Even worse, Rolls-Royce PLC had ties to BMW. Guess who received permission to use the name? BMW—not Volkswagen.

23/03/2024

F1 Drivers have an average reaction time of 0.200secs.
Reflexes on fleek.

Neo: When I become fast enough I'll be able to dodge bullets?Morpheus: No, I'm saying, when you're ready, you won't have...
21/03/2024

Neo: When I become fast enough I'll be able to dodge bullets?
Morpheus: No, I'm saying, when you're ready, you won't have to.

The notorious Ford V8 that belonged to infamous crime couple Bonnie and Clyde. The bullet holes are from 1934 when offic...
13/03/2024

The notorious Ford V8 that belonged to infamous crime couple Bonnie and Clyde.

The bullet holes are from 1934 when officers ambushed and shot the couple more than fifty times with automatic rifles and shotguns, ensuring they would not escape again.

The iconic vehicle is currently housed in Whiskey Pete's Casino in Primm, Nevada.

Frank Lucas, the black drug lord who ruled Harlem in the 1970s, was so discreet that the police didn't know who he was u...
15/02/2024

Frank Lucas, the black drug lord who ruled Harlem in the 1970s, was so discreet that the police didn't know who he was until in 1971 when he decided to wear a $100,000 full-length chinchilla coat — to a Muhammad Ali boxing match.

He later wrote that this was a “massive mistake."

Apparently, Lucas’s coat caught the eye of law enforcement — who were surprised that he had better seats than Diana Ross and Frank Sinatra.

As Lucas put it: “I left that fight a marked man.”

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