Do you want to be highly favored? What is favor, anyway? It is unmerited good fortune, unearned blessing. In fact, some might consider you to be “lucky” when in fact you're simply favored by God.

As an entrepreneur, the primary aim of being in business is to create revenue. How do we do that? Offer a product or service to the market that solves a problem or serves a need, and do so in such a way that your company makes a profit. This is common sense.

Wealth is a great tool, but a horrible God.

I've been told – sometimes rudely, sometimes with kind intent – that “spiritual” matters and business don't mix.

First: what does it mean to rip someone off?

Entrepreneurs are visionary people.

What if the way to build a more successful business was simply to give more?

“Pig Pen, this here is Rubber Duck. We ain’t gonna pay no toll…” CW McCall, “Convoy”

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” William Shakespeare

Precise knowledge about specific processes can produce great wealth.

Add this book to your list of must-reads: The Ultimate Sales Machine, by Chet Holmes.

You probably know about the Pareto principle. It’s the principle discovered by the Italian mathematician (whose last name was, surprisingly enough, Pareto) that states something like the following: 80% of the results in any system arise from 20% of the inputs in that system. In the world of business, the Pareto principle is commonly invoked when noting such mathematical oddities as the fact that 80% of the sales are generated by less than 20% of the sales people; 80% of the revenue is generated by less than 20% of the customers; 80% of the leads are generated by less than 20% of the phone calls… and so forth.

An appropriate note on beginnings, as we roll through this first month of the year.

If you're discouraged about building a website for your new business or idea, there really is little excuse for delaying your project.

I have a friend who runs a very successful business.

Things don't always seem the same to your customers as they seem to you.