You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yourself through education.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Know the business, learn the business, own something.
You have to grow! You grow as a person, and then you will grow in business.
You need to understand the market, know how you can differentiate yourself in it, and grasp the price and the functional differentiation competitive points that are going to allow you to be disruptive.
You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.
I want to be in this business as long as this business will have me.
You have to be willing to risk things; otherwise, somebody else will put you out of business.
You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.
You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.
I always told people in the private sector, 'You can be the smartest person in the world, you can have the very best ideas, but if you can't sell them and you can't get other people to work with you, you're not going to succeed.'
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