August Turak is a successful entrepreneur, corporate executive, and author of Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO's Quest for Meaning and Authenticity. He also writes for Forbes.
He is a spiritual person who used business as a way of self-development.
The first thing he did was not figure out was he was going to do, but figure out who he wanted to be.
The first thing he did was to sit down and write the values, who was the kind of person he was going to be, how he was going to live, how he was going to conduct himself as a business entrepreneur and he believes that was the critical reason as to why he was eventually successful.
He started with the shoe string approach; back against the wall mentality that he wanted to foster and maintain in his first business, that was one of his values.
Anybody can do anything that they want to do if they do it right.
Business is making things and selling things.
You have to be in business for something higher than money. Money is not the purpose of the business; money is the way you measure if you are achieving the mission or not.
Focus on delighting your customer, serving your customer and the commissions and quotas take care of themselves.
The purpose of leadership is a way for you to make other people successful. The more time spent on making people successful, the more successful you will become.
There are two kinds of people; there are sufferers and learners. To find out who you really are, you find out under pressure.
Excellence is not a choice, but a habit.
Fear is the number one problem with people.
One of the things that make an entrepreneur an entrepreneur is he or she is the kind of person that finds the money he or she needs; they don’t sit around and wait for the money and then become the entrepreneur; they becomes the entrepreneur by finding the money in the first place.
Great leaders believe in themselves.
Baby boomers can sell. Ask yourself if you have the self-discipline for it. You have to be willing to hustle. Many people are looking for sales people. There is a lot of money in sales.
After retirement, the first thing you should do is get out and meet people. Start networking.
Use your expertise in any way you can.
Entrepreneurship is salesmanship.
When you retire. Aim past the target. Look around. Ask yourself what you want your life to be about now? See this as an opportunity. Put a group together. This group can read books together, discuss things, get more active.
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