Property Investor's Corner
This quote From President Roosevelt clearly demonstrates what it takes to reach a dream and just how vital it is to turn a deaf ear to those who try to discourage or distract you.
It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." - Teddy Roosevelt
Donald Trump's Ten Commandments
What the business world loves about Donald Trump and his critics hate is that he has the courage to stand and be counted. He speaks big but his projects are bigger. He actually is living the life most property developers and investors will only ever dream of. So rather than knocking one of the genuine champions of property. I thought we should celebrate his contribution and take some time to consider his ten commandments of how to think big and how to become big.
Think Big – but start small
The Ten Commandments:
| 1. | Be Thorough |
| 2. | Get Momentum and keep it going |
| 3. | Stay focused, you have to stay focused |
| 4. | Look at the solution not the problem |
| 5. | See opportunity for what it is |
| 6. | Know everything you need to know about your business |
| 7. | Be Lucky – the harder you work the luckier you become |
| 8. | See yourself as victorious |
| 9. | Be smart know you have something unique |
| 10. | Above all never never never give up |
Business Wisdom
Robert Frost
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
Chester L. Karrass
In business, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.
Paul Getty
My father said: "You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals.
Henry Boyle
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
Vincent Lombardi
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour.
The Bible, John 8:32
The truth shall make you free.
Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
William Durant
Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget about everything except what you're going to do now - and do it.
Aristotle
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character
Norman Vincent Peale
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Albert Einstein
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Brian Tracy
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often
Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Unknown Author
Determination, patience and courage are the only things needed to improve any situation
Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
Michael Gulliver
An individual who is active in higher learning soon becomes an individual active in higher earning.
Benjamin Disraeli
Beware of endeavouring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
George Washington
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
John Keats
Beauty is truth, truth beauty" - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Buddha
Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
Winston Churchil
It's not good enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.