Submitted by Lorraine Ranalli: You’re an entrepreneur. A small business person. Maybe you’re a sole proprietor. You have what it takes to make it in this crazy economy and you are not shy about rolling up your sleeves to get the job done. You are judicious, charitable, and concerned about free market enterprise, the system …
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Can Anything be Easy?
The cover photo on the Chester County Antique Car Club’s March newsletter caught my eye when I was sifting through some mail that was piled on my desk. For days I had been trying to come up with a relevant topic for this column but I had been easily distracted. While studying the ‘27 Austin …
Momentum
On page 162 of my book Going in Cold is a Beetle Bailey cartoon that speaks volumes. Sarge (Beetle’s nemesis and a bully) instructs Private Plato (the philosophical professorial type) to paint an arrow on the wall with a message that reads “This way to the cashier’s window.” In the last frame, we see Sarge …
Luck is Where Preparation Meets Opportunity
While driving recently, I heard one of my favorite radio talk show hosts say something that I hadn’t heard in years, “Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.” That statement unleashed in me a chain-reaction of thoughts. As a salesperson, so much of my life was in preparation for what ultimately became success in the sales …
Seize The Moment
Are you burned out? This topic came to me a few weeks ago. At the time, I didn’t want to write about it but it reared its head again. So here it is. Burn-out affects all of us especially when we look at the fact that there is no down time in our lives… at …
Is Now the Time to Launch Your Business?
Don’t pay attention to naysayers. Who are they? What do they know? Are they an authority? Even the authorities in their respective fields don’t always know for sure about timing. There are too many variables. Take the stock market for example. Roughly five billion shares are traded every day. Half of those people think the …
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