Thornhill Wealth Forum
Entrepreneur Secrets and Personal Finance
I came across an article in Inc entitled: Street Smart Secrets of a $110 Million Man.
Here are the 10 pieces of advice outlined for entrepreneurs.
1. Numbers run a business. If you don’t know how to read them, you are flying blind.
2. A sale isn’t a sale until you collect.
3. When your short-term liabilities exceed your short-term assets, you are bankrupt.
4. Forget about shortcuts. Run a business as if it’s forever.
5. Cash is hard to get and easy to spend. Make it before you spend it.
6. You have no friends in business, only associates.
7. Don’t focus on the top line. Gross margin is the most important number on the income statement.
8. Identify your true competitors, and treat them with respect.
9. Culture drives a company. In the long run, the boss’s most important job is to define and enforce it.
10. The life plan has to come before the business plan.
This is excellent advice for entrepreneur, but also holds true for everyday life…..
If you don’t know how to read numbers, you’re flying blind.
In order to succeed with personal finance, one needs to have at least a minimal ability to work with numbers – to add and subtract in a logical fashion and a basic understanding of how interest rates work. Without that, you truly are flying blind.
Money isn’t money until you have it.
This is a solid, simple rule to live by – don’t spend money you don’t have yet. The easiest way to do this is to simply avoid credit cards, or to only use them if you have enough cash in your checking account to immediately pay off the full balance.
Don’t focus on the top line. Gross margin is the most important number on the income statement.
What’s “gross margin”? It simply means spend less than you earn – it’s the difference between how much you bring in and how much you spend. The bigger the difference between what you spend and what you earn, the better shape you’ll be in over the long term.
Culture drives a company.
What does this mean for you? Surround yourself with friends and people who all practice a healthy financial lifestyle. Friends who socialize by shopping don’t help. Friends who constantly try to one-up each other with the biggest, best, and latest gadgets don’t help. Friends who encourage each other to improve and do better? They help. Friends who constantly help each other out with tasks? They help.
Forget about shortcuts.
Putting yourself in a healthy long-term solution for financial success is never easy. It’s going to take work and diligence. You need a long-term plan for turning things around. Take things one step at a time, retain the tactics that work, and ditch the ones that don’t. Be persistent, and don’t give into frivolous temptations.
The tactics for success in business, in the end, aren’t that different than the tactics for success in everyday life. Spend less than you earn, do it consistently, and surround yourself with support for that lifestyle, and you’ll do well.
I came across an article in Inc entitled: Street Smart Secrets of a $110 Million Man.
Here are the 10 pieces of advice outlined for entrepreneurs.
1. Numbers run a business. If you don’t know how to read them, you are flying blind.
2. A sale isn’t a sale until you collect.
3. When your short-term liabilities exceed your short-term assets, you are bankrupt.
4. Forget about shortcuts. Run a business as if it’s forever.
5. Cash is hard to get and easy to spend. Make it before you spend it.
6. You have no friends in business, only associates.
7. Don’t focus on the top line. Gross margin is the most important number on the income statement.
8. Identify your true competitors, and treat them with respect.
9. Culture drives a company. In the long run, the boss’s most important job is to define and enforce it.
10. The life plan has to come before the business plan.
This is excellent advice for entrepreneur, but also holds true for everyday life…..
If you don’t know how to read numbers, you’re flying blind.
In order to succeed with personal finance, one needs to have at least a minimal ability to work with numbers – to add and subtract in a logical fashion and a basic understanding of how interest rates work. Without that, you truly are flying blind.
Money isn’t money until you have it.
This is a solid, simple rule to live by – don’t spend money you don’t have yet. The easiest way to do this is to simply avoid credit cards, or to only use them if you have enough cash in your checking account to immediately pay off the full balance.
Don’t focus on the top line. Gross margin is the most important number on the income statement.
What’s “gross margin”? It simply means spend less than you earn – it’s the difference between how much you bring in and how much you spend. The bigger the difference between what you spend and what you earn, the better shape you’ll be in over the long term.
Culture drives a company.
What does this mean for you? Surround yourself with friends and people who all practice a healthy financial lifestyle. Friends who socialize by shopping don’t help. Friends who constantly try to one-up each other with the biggest, best, and latest gadgets don’t help. Friends who encourage each other to improve and do better? They help. Friends who constantly help each other out with tasks? They help.
Forget about shortcuts.
Putting yourself in a healthy long-term solution for financial success is never easy. It’s going to take work and diligence. You need a long-term plan for turning things around. Take things one step at a time, retain the tactics that work, and ditch the ones that don’t. Be persistent, and don’t give into frivolous temptations.
The tactics for success in business, in the end, aren’t that different than the tactics for success in everyday life. Spend less than you earn, do it consistently, and surround yourself with support for that lifestyle, and you’ll do well.
