Seth Godin: Be an ideas factory not an ideas bank
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 25th, 2010
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Monthly Archive for November, 2010
Find a way
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 18th, 2010
Today I had a run in with the Australian Securities and investments Commission (ASIC) the Australian equivalent to the SEC. I was talking to ASIC on behalf of a client who had an unusual situation and I had a solution for the issue. But ASIC was simply not interested and they kept quoting the word [...]
I need good luck
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 17th, 2010
And you can get it. Change your habits, change what you do. Mix it up, try new things. Get out of your routine and do odd stuff. A different approach will lead to different interactions and new interactions will create new opportunities. I need good luck, you need good luck, and there is a way to achieve this – do lots [...]
Be a contrarian
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 17th, 2010
The conventional wisdom formula for property development is to invest the smallest amount of equity as possible, borrow the rest, develop as quickly as you can and hope you can sell fast. And many fortunes have been built this way. Not however the fortune of Australia’s billionaire property developer Harry Triguboff, owner of Meriton Apartments. [...]
Adjust your think big limiter and document your big plans
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 17th, 2010
Graeme Hart is a New Zealand businessman, who according to the 2009 Forbes rich list has a personal fortune of US$6.1 billion. Hart’s Rank Group buys under-performing and under-valued companies with steady cash flows which can be turned around through strong management, cost-cutting and restructuring with other businesses. He left school at 15 and worked [...]
Fail more and succeed more
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 17th, 2010
most people fail in life becasue the don’t make enough wrong decisions
K.I.S.S. M.E
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 15th, 2010
Keep It Simple Straight-forward and Make-it Easy The lowest hanging fruit in terms of opportunity, innovation and business improvement is the development of keep it simple and straightforward products, services and systems that make it easy for your customers, suppliers, distributors, partners and stakeholders to do enjoyable, no-fuss and profitable business with you. It is [...]
Rules, rules rules!
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 11th, 2010
Rules and policy are developed by the paranoid to mitigate threats and communists to control the masses. In reality what rules and policy do is create opportunity. In the US, mortgage brokers, banks and investment banks made hundreds of billions in peddling and repackaging home loans to low income earners who could not afford them. [...]
Check out this lucky bastard – a billionaire no less!
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 10th, 2010
Another goose who has been successful based on pure luck is Facebook founder Mark Elliot “Zuck” Zuckerberg. It came to Zuckerberg easily. In middle school instead of wasting his time on social networking sites, he started programming. His father taught him Atari BASIC Programming in the 1990s and a tutor was hired for him. He [...]