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Explore the success of small firms, "dull-normal" industries, and excellent CEOs while questioning the overrated nature of big companies and "cool" industries. Celebrate your own potential!
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Dick Kovacevich:You don’t get better by being bigger. You get worse.”
“I am often asked by would-be entrepreneurs seeking escape from life within huge corporate structures, ‘How do I build a small firm for myself?’ The answer seems obvious:Buy a very large one and just wait.”—Paul Ormerod, Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics
Jim’s Mowing Canada Jim’s Mowing UK Jim’s Antennas Jim’s Bookkeeping Jim’s Building Maintenance Jim’s Carpet Cleaning Jim’s Car Cleaning Jim’s Computer Services Jim’s Dog Wash Jim’s Driving School Jim’s Fencing Jim’s Floors Jim’s Painting Jim’s Paving Jim’s Pergolas [gazebos] Jim’s Pool Care Jim’s Pressure Cleaning Jim’s Roofing Jim’s Security Doors Jim’s Trees Jim’s Window Cleaning Jim’s Windscreens Note: Download, free, Jim Penman’s book: What Will They Franchise Next? The Story of Jim’s Group
etc.PRSX/Paragon Railcar Salvage**Salvaged railcars into bridges, etc.
*Lived in same town all adult life*First generation wealthy/no parental support*“Don’t look like millionaires, don’t dress like millionaires, don’t eat like millionaires, don’t act like millionaires”*“Many of the types of businesses [they] are in could be classified as ‘dull- normal.’ [They] are welding contractors, auctioneers, scrap-metal dealers, portable toilets, dry cleaners, re-builders of diesel engines, paving contractors …”Source: The Millionaire Next Door, Thomas Stanley & William Danko
Market capitalization lost per day, 1998-2007: $10,000,000/Day
Tom Peters’ X25*EXCELLENCE. ALWAYS.Mind Consulting/Bologna09 November 2007*In Search of Excellence 1982-2007
“A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.”—Chinese Proverb
TP: “How to flush $500,000 down the toilet in one easy lesson!!”
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”—Dale Carnegie
“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.”—Henry Clay
“The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.”William James
THE PROBLEM IS RARELY/NEVER THE PROBLEM.THE RESPONSE TO THE PROBLEM INVARIABLY ENDS UP BEING THE REAL PROBLEM.
Relationships(of all varieties):THERE ONCE WAS A TIME WHEN A THREE-MINUTEPHONECALL WOULD HAVE AVOIDED SETTING OFF THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL THAT RESULTED IN A COMPLETE RUPTURE.
Conrad Hilton, at a gala celebrating his life, was asked, “What was the most important lesson you’ve learned in you long and distinguished career?” His immediate answer: “remember to tuck the shower curtain inside the bathtub”
Jim’s Mowing Canada Jim’s Mowing UK Jim’s Antennas Jim’s Bookkeeping Jim’s Building Maintenance Jim’s Carpet Cleaning Jim’s Car Cleaning Jim’s Computer Services Jim’s Dog Wash Jim’s Driving School Jim’s Fencing Jim’s Floors Jim’s Painting Jim’s Paving Jim’s Pergolas [gazebos] Jim’s Pool Care Jim’s Pressure Cleaning Jim’s Roofing Jim’s Security Doors Jim’s Trees Jim’s Window Cleaning Jim’s Windscreens Note: Download, free, Jim Penman’s book: What Will They Franchise Next? The Story of Jim’s Group
etc.PRSX/Paragon Railcar Salvage**Salvaged railcars into bridges, etc.
*Lived in same town all adult life*First generation wealthy/no parental support*“Don’t look like millionaires, don’t dress like millionaires, don’t eat like millionaires, don’t act like millionaires”*“Many of the types of businesses [they] are in could be classified as ‘dull- normal.’ [They] are welding contractors, auctioneers, scrap-metal dealers, portable toilets, dry cleaners, re-builders of diesel engines, paving contractors …”Source: The Millionaire Next Door, Thomas Stanley & William Danko
