How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It

In all of my businesses, I started by putting together spreadsheets of my expenses, which allowed me to calculate how much revenue I needed to break even and keep the lights on in my office and my apartment. I wrote overviews of what I was selling, why I thought the business made sense, an overview of my competition, why my product and/or service would be important to my customers and why they should buy or use it. All of it went down on a piece of yellow paper or in a word processing file, and none of it cost me more than the diet soda I was drinking while I was writing it up.

Don’t start a company unless it’s an obsession and something you love

Moral of the story: Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you

When I catch myself daydreaming about how I’m going to do this or that, I always try to wake up and ask myself just how I’m going to get from where I am to where I want to be. What EXACTLY is it going to take to DO it, rather than dream about it.

Start the day ​motivated with a positive attitude
You are going to screw up. We all do. I can’t tell you how many times I did and continue to. It happens too often. But no matter what happens, every morning, the minute after you wipe away the crust from your eyes, remind yourself that you are going to enjoy every minute of the day.

4. Figure out how to be the best
Once you have found out what you love to do, there is only one goal: to be the best in the world at it. It doesn’t matter if you are a filing clerk, an athlete, an accountant or a bartender. All that matters is that you do whatever you can to be the best.

The point of all this is that it doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and from those around you because …
All that matters in bus iness is that you get it right once.
Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

Fortunately, things turned out well for me with MicroSolutions. I sold it after seven years and made enough money to take time off and have a whole lot of fun.

No one ever asks me about what it was like when I started MicroSolutions or how I used to count the months I was in business, hoping to outlast my previous endeavors and make this one a success

Never settle. There is no reason to rush