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16 Business Tips & Lessons from the Entrepreneur’s Bookshelf

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You’ve heard you are what you eat, well we believe that you are what you read. Teach a CEO presents lessons from our bookshelf on how you can improve and grow your venture. We have taken nuggets from our library and provide them for entrepreneurs and business owners.

  1. The implications for your health alone are worth making the shift [from a zebra to a lion], because if you are constantly in survival mode you are operating out of ‘fight or flight,' which has serious consequences on your immune system and overall levels of health. For the sake of your potential, your dreams, your health and your family, you must start developing the mindset of a lion and get out of survival mode. (Hustle)
  2. Some businesspeople and lawyers ponder and argue a lot about whether proposed contract terms would be fair. I think that's an unhelpful view of contracts for two reasons. First, it's hard or even impossible to define “fair” in contract negotiations. Second, a focus on what's fair may lead you to reject deals that make economic sense or to accept deals that don't. The better question is: would doing the deal under these terms be more profitable than not doing it? (The Tech Contracts Handbook)
  3. Goals actually allow you to shirk responsibility. But a mission? Only the person in the mirror can stop you from living that out. (Chop Wood Carry Water)
  4. Everyone has big dreams, but the best indicator of whether or not you will have a shot, not a guarantee, but a shot at making your dreams come true is the truth about how much you are willing to suffer. (Burn Your Goals)
  5. One advantage of owning my own business was that it allowed me to make trade-offs with other business owners for services that we both needed, otherwise known as bartering.
  6. The quickest path to becoming ignored is to ask people to give you stuff. (Hustle)
  7. In professional service deals, the independent contractor clause should also confirm that the vendor's employees won't be considered employees of the customer and that the vendor remains responsible for their benefits and pay. (The Tech Contracts Handbook)
  8. Don't worry about a lack of resources. Instead, focus on using whatever you do have to hustle after what really matters: falling in love with the process of becoming great. (Hustle)
  9. What you don't see happening is what is taking place beneath the surface. Beneath the surface, a massive, dense foundation of roots is spreading out all the throughout the ground to prepare for the rapid growth that the bamboo will experience. So, you keep watering it and watering it, and eventually, after five years of seeing nothing at all happen above the surface, the bamboo tree shoots up to over ninety feet tall in just six weeks. (Chop Wood Carry Water)
  10. But the thing is it's not about thinking. Everyone has great ideas. Most people aren't willing to habitually, and consistently act, fail, learn, and repeat outside the box. (The Spirit Told Me What the Doctors Couldn't)
  11. Everyone has big dreams, but the best indicator of whether or not you will have a shot, not a guarantee, but a shot at making your dreams come true is the truth about how much you are willing to suffer. (Burn Your Goals)
  12. Intellectual property law lets creators monopolize certain products of their intellect. Because of IP law, you can own an invention you've developed. You can also own software or a story you've written, a photograph you've take, music you've written or recorded, a sculpture you've carved, a name or log you've used in commerce and various other types of intangible property. And your ownership covers more than just physical products. If you build a better mousetrap and get a patent, you can monopolize the invention so that no one else can build mousetraps like yours. (The Tech Contracts Handbook)
  13. Be careful who you get advice from. Many people have a vested interest in seeing you fail. If you succeed and show that it's possible, then they no longer can say it's impossible. (Hustle)
  14. Your membories are not created thrugh your experiences, rather they are created throught the stories you tell yourself and others about your experiences. So, if you leave a practice or a match and you tell everyone how poorly you played, and you focus on all your mistakes, then that is what your brain remembers. Most people undermine all the hard work they are putting in by telling really negative stories and blocking out all the growth that is happening. (Chop Wood Carry Water)
  15. My goal is to heal and tell my story in order to help others. That is why I have written this account, so that others can ride the waves when their lives get thrown into a storm. (The Spirit Told Me What the Doctors Couldn't)
  16. It's easy to believe, or at least paint the picture, that people who execute at the highest level have something special that we weren't born with. No one is born with “it.” We are all born with certain things and “it,” whatever “it” is, is developed over time through deliberate practice, intense training, repeated failure, and immense sacrifice. (Burn Your Goals)
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