I consult with many business owners every week, doing their websites and guiding them in the right direction.  And by far the number one excuse for the people that fail is not doing anything. They don’t blog.  They don’t market.  I take all of that back, many actually do something, they tweak their sidebars, their colors, their graphics.  They do everything but actual business.  Marketing is the number one item that should be on your to do list.

Then you have the group that is told they just need _____ to start a business.  Fill in the blank with lawyer, assistant, business plan or lawyer (again) any other obstruction between you and your business.  Why do you think someone else can run your business better than you can?  Look for support not layers that stop you from getting your product or service out there.

These obstructions are excuses from starting.  Start, tweak as you go.  A vast majority of your decisions are going to be made from actually running your business anyways.  You learn by doing.

Get rid of the excuses about starting and just start.  Get a website from us and start blogging.  Start networking, start learning about your niche.  Ask for advice and learn from other people’s experiences.  But start today.  Right now.

Anyways the people that try to scare you into putting these layers in are the people that sell the layers.  Publishers and authors of books and magazines, lawyers and the million other people that make money selling you the “correct” way to success.  They have have their place but you don’t need them to start.  You can add as you go.

The only things you really need (not required) is a business card and a website.  You really don’t even need those to start but you’ll want them pretty quickly.  Everything else you can add as you go.  If you can get by without it right now then you don’t need it right now.  Only add items when you really need it.

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Do you know the difference between successful and unsuccessful business people?

Successful business people think they are successful.  That’s it.  Pretty simple.  You can quit reading and go forth and be successful.  So why are there so many how to be successful books/seminars/conferences/ebooks/audio program…etc?  Because a great many people don’t believe they are successful or can be.  They think they have to learn a new technique or some hidden secret.

The secret is you.  The secret is that you think you are successful.

I believe in you.  I believe you are successful.

Now go out there and do it.

There is no ABC formula for success that everybody can get to work. Doesn’t exist. If it did then there would only be on success book. Nobody else would have written a success book if the only one worked for everyone.

There are many many success books. Health, diet, finance, relationships, etc, etc. You name it there is a bunch of books, ebooks, videos, courses and seminars.

Keep on your success course. Try many options and never give up on your vision. Some books will help you, some will not. Some people you will like and then fall out of out it and move on to others. Go with the flow. Keep on course and feel your way.

You create your own reality and you are in charge of it. It is up to you.

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If it works for Richard Branson what do you think it will work for you?

The list below are high school droputs:

Thomas Haffa – self-made double-digit billionaire German media businessman

J.R. Simplot – self-made billionaire American agricultural businessman

Robert Maxwell – self-made billionaire British publisher

Jim Clark – self-made billionaire American businessman; founder of Netscape – first Internet billionaire (17, U.S. Navy)

Jimmy Dean – singer-songwriter-actor; self-made multimillionaire American businessman; founder of the Jimmy

Andrew Jackson – 7th U.S. President; face is pictured on the U.S. twenty dollar bill (13, U.S. Continental Army; orphaned at 14; little formal education; home schooling/life experience; studied law in his late teens and became a lawyer

Leon Uris – best-selling American author (Exodus,  etc.) (17, U.S. Marines)

Walter L. Smith – former president of  Florida A& M University (equivalency diploma, at age 23.

Clement Stone – self-made multimillionaire (some sources indicate billionaire) American businessman-author; founder of Success” magazine (elementary school dropout; later attended high-school night courses and then some college

Jack London – best-selling American author (dropped out at 14 to work; later gained admission to the University of California; left after one semester

Arthur Ernest Morgan – American  flood-control engineer; college, president-author; appointed by President Roosevelt to be director of the Tennessee Valley Authority public works project (left high school after three years; later attended the University of Colorado for six weeks

Maurice Chevalier – Oscar-winning actor-singer; French Legion of Honor inductee/Medal recipient (note: rank bestowed in

Pierce Brosnan – actor

Daniel Gilbert – Harvard University psychology professor (equivalency diploma

Patrick Henry  – American Revolutionary War era politician; Virginia’ first governor; famous quote: Give me liberty, or give me death! (little formal education; home schooling/life experience; later studied on his own and earned a law degree

Peter Jennings – Canadian-born American television journalist; evening news anchorman

Ansel Adams – American wilderness photographer;  photography book author; Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient

Brooke Astor – wealthy American socialite-philanthropist-author; Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient

Pearl Bailey – singer-actress, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient

Bill Bartman – self-made billionaire American businessman

Lew Grade – British film/TV producer (TV: The Avengers, The Saint, Secret Agent, The Prisoner, The Muppet Show, etc.); knighted (United Kingdom: Sir Lew Grade)

Philip Emeagwali – supercomputer scientist; one of the pioneers of the Internet (high-IQ high-school dropout; left school in native Nigeria due to war conditions and lack of tuition money; continued to study on his own and earned an equivalency diploma; later won a scholarship to Oregon College of Education in the United States; transferred after one year to Oregon State University)

Hiram Stevens – American-born engineering inventor, knighted (United Kingdom: Sir Hiram Stevens)

Kemmons Wilson – self-made multimillionaire American businessman; founder of the Holiday Inn” hotel chain

Kjell Inge Rokke – self-made billionaire Norwegian businessman

Walter Nash – New Zealand Prime Minister 1957-1960, knighted (United Kingdom: Sir Walter Nash)

Rosa Parks – U.S. civil rights activist-pioneer; Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; Congressional Gold Medal recipient

Mary Pickford – Oscar-winning actress; early Hollywood pioneer; co-founder of United Artists Corporation” (little formal education [six months]; home schooling/life experience)

Frederick Freddy” Laker – self-made multimillionaire British businessman; airline entrepreneur; knighted (United Kingdom: Sir Frederick [or Freddy] Laker)

Tommy Lasorda – baseball team manager; National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee

Anton van Leeuwenhoek- Dutch microscope maker; world’s first microbiologist; discoverer of bacteria, blood cells, and sperm cells)

Richard Branson – self-made billionaire British businessman; founder of Virgin Atlantic Airways,” Virgin Records,” etc.; knighted (United Kingdom: Sir Richard Branson)

Isaac Merrit Singer – American sewing machine inventor; self-made multimillionaire founder of Singer Industries,” I.M. Singer and Company,” etc. (elementary school dropout)

Alfred E. Smith – New York Governor; 1928 Democratic U.S. Presidential candidate (elementary school dropout)

Sean Connery – Oscar-winning actor; knighted (United Kingdom: Sir Sean Connery)

Jack Kent Cooke – self-made billionaire Canadian-born American media businessman

Charles E. Culpeper – self-made multimillionaire American businessman; early 1900s’ owner and head of The Coca Cola Bottling Company

Robert De Niro – Oscar-winning actor-producer; knighted (France: Chevalier [Knight] of the Legion of Honor; Chevalier [or Chev.] Robert De Niro)

Gerard Depardieu – Oscar-nominated actor; knighted (France: Chevalier [or Chev.] Gerard Depardieu)  (elementary school dropout)

Richard Desmond – self-made billionaire British publisher

Joe Lewis – self-made billionaire British businessman

Carl Lindn er – self-made billionaire American businessman

John Llewellyn – U.S. Labor leader pioneer; for 40 years until his retirement, president of the United Mine Workers Union

Marcus Loew – self-made multimillionaire American businessman; early Hollywood pioneer; founder of the Loews” movie-theater chain; co-fondner of MGM studios (elementary school dropout)

Mary Lyon – American women’s education pioneer; early American teacher; founder of Mount Holyoke College (America’s first women’s college)

Sonny Bono – singer-songwriter-actor, U.S. Congressman (California U.S. Representative)

Horace Greeley – American newspaper publisher-editor; U.S. Congressman; U.S. Presidential candidate; co-founder of the Republican party in the United States

Here is another list of people that dropped out of high school or college.  They have gone on to make more money then the rest of their graduating class all together:

Alan Gerry is another billionaire high school dropout. Gerry 71 also filled his bank account by exploiting a new technology. In 1956, ten years after he dropped out of high school, Gerry built the first cable television network in upstate New York. He made his fortune in this new market, and then sold his company, Cablevision, to Time Warner for $2.6 billion four years ago. Now Gerry is chairman of a venture capital firm called Granite Associates. Granite funds entrepreneurs trying to make their money in burgeoning technology industries, just as Gerry made his fortune by getting into cable when it was still in its infancy.

When you have a brilliant idea, nobody is going to ask to see your diploma, Gerry says. You don’t need a four-year college degree if you have burning ambition or a great plan.

Take Spud King John R. Simplot. Simplot, was born on an Idaho farm and left home when he was 14 because he was sick of milking cows.” Simplot followed that with a half century of hard work and shrewd investments, he made a killing in Micron (nyse: MU – news – people ). How important was education to his success? Hell, he says, I didn’t even get out of the eighth grade.

Tom Monaghan owner of Dominioes and former owner of the Detroit Tigers:

I floundered during the rest of high school and graduated last in my class. They weren’t even going to graduate me, but I pleaded with a nun. She said, Well, you got good marks in the seminary, so I’ll let you graduate. But don’t ever ask me to recommend you for college.

One day in 1960, my brother told me about a pizza shop in Ypsilanti, Mich., called Dominoes, that a friend of his was selling. My brother was interested but afraid to do it on his own, so he asked if I’d do it with him. I was having problems paying my way through school, so I said yes. It was $500 down, and we borrowed $900. I got a 15-minute lesson in making pizza from Dominick, and I was off. We opened up without an attorney. I didn’t even collect sales tax “didn’t know I had to. The plan was for me to work half the night and my brother to work the other half. But it didn’t work because he didn’t want to leave his full-time job as a mailman. Within about eight months he wanted out, and I bought him out by giving him the Volkswagen we used for deliveries.

Most of you probably know that Dave Thomas the founder of Wendys was a high school dropout.

Peter Jennings-High School Dropout

Here is a couple of notable geniuses that were not billionaires. They were rich with knowledge but not cash. They were high school dropouts.

Albert Einstein
Thomas Edison

Hong Kong self-made billionaire Li Ka-Shing, worth $18.8 billion or so, is Asia’s richest man. He is also the richest Chinese in the world, and according to Forbes, the 10th richest man in the world.

When he was just 12 years old, Li and his family fled to Hong Kong when Japan invaded China. When he was 15, Liâ’s father died and he was forced to drop out of high school to support his family.

Li got his start as a salesman selling watches at his uncle’s store, and soon proved to be a diligent worker: he worked 16 hour days, visited customers during the day and worked at the factory at night. Determined to better himself, Li even found a tutor to teach him English every night!

When he was 21, Li opened a plastic manufacturing company and grew his business by selling high quality plastic flowers at bargain prices. When Li was 30, he accidentally got into real estate because he couldn’t renew the lease for his factory and was forced to purchase and develop a site himself.

From there, Li diversified into electronics, telecommunications, retails, ports, and even power and electricity. Li is also noted for his philantrophy: he gave millions to various universities and disaster-relief.

All in all, not bad for a high school drop-out.

Amancio Ortega.

Amancio Ortega was a son of a railway worker turned fashion-mogul and Spain’s richest man. He is worth $14.8 billion.

Ortega started out at the age of 14 as a gofer in a shirt store. At the age of 27, he started his own company to make bathrobes. Twelve years later, he opened his first store called Zara, which would become an enormously popular chain.

Ortega kept a very low profile (so much so that when he did make a public appearance in 2000, it made headlines in Spanish press!) but we’re guessing it’s not because this billionaire dropped out of high school.

François Pinault.

François who? You may not recognize the name, but you’ll definitely know his products: through his retail and luxury goods holding company PPR, Franasois Pinault owns (or has owned) Gucci, YSL, Converse sneakers, Samsonite luggage, the Vail ski resort in Colorado, and the auction house Christie’s.

But donâ’t tell the luxury goods buyers that Pinault is a high school dropout – just tell them he’s worth $7 billion.

David Murdock had a tough childhood – he dropped out of high school in ninth-grade and pumped gas until he was drafted into the Army.

Since then, however, life had worked out for him: Murdock did a leveraged buyout of Castle & Cooke, which then bought Dole Food Company and assumed its name.

So, next time you eat a Dole pinapple, remember that the guy that owns it was a high school drop out (and by buying the product, you’re making him that much richer than the $4 billion he’s currently worth)

Kirk Kerkorian.

Self-made billionaire Kirk Kerkorian was an amateur boxer (Rifle Right Kerkorina) and a pilot. At the age of 30, he got his start by buying a small air-charter service flying gamblers from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in 1947.

Seeing opportunities in Las Vegas, Kerkorian bought land and got into the lucrative real estate / casino development. Since the 1960s, Kerkorian had bought (and sold) hot properties like the Caesars Palace, the Las Vegas Hilton, MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, and others.

Kerkorian’s current fortune is estimated to be around $8.7 billion – not bad for someone who was a highschool dropout.

YC Wang.

Can you technically label someone a dropout if he never started high school to begin with? Dunno, but this is too remarkable not to mention.

Wait, there’s a billionaire here that never even set foot in high school?

Yes. That’s YC Wang, a self-made Taiwanese billionaire who made his fortune in plastics and chemicals. The octagenarian is now the head of Taiwan’s Formosa Plastics, one of the largest plastic manufacturers in the world.

Wang was born to a tea farmer and was forced to enter the work force with only an elementary school education.

He did well for himself, though – Wang is now worth $5.4 billion.

Virgin’s Richard Branson is worth $2.8 billion and that’s not too shabby for a guy who didn’t even finish high school.

Branson suffered from dyslexia and dropped out of high school at 16 years of age. What he lacked in schooling, however, he made up in curiosity and entrepreneur zeal – when he was 15, he had started two business ventures: growing Christmas trees and raising parrots!

When he was 17, Branson opened his first charity and started his first record business. Along with Nik Powell, Branson opened a small record store in London called Virgin. It specialized in krautrock imports.

Virgin became a veritable giant (branching out into things like airways, telecommunication and so forth) and Branson was knighted in 1999 for services to entrepreneurship.

More education doesn’t mean you’ll be more successful. It’s all about your drive. Your passion in life and sticking to it. Not necessarily playing it safe.  I’ve meet many people that have played it safe, with a good job and such and then retire broke.  Don’t play it safe.  Go for it like these people have.

So, next time you want to call him a high school dropout, remember that it’s Sir high school dropout to you.

Enoch Tan has an excellent articles on success using law of attraction.

This is also why successful business people seem to create even more businesses that become instantly successful whether they consciously use the law of attraction or not. Such business people have an unshakable confidence, knowing and faith that whatever they turn their mind to will instantly succeed. The powerful thought form and its success vibration operating in the sphere of the collective subconscious mind therefore ensures success. You cause everything you do to be a success with intention.

When the seller has no confidence in the success of his business, and merely hopes that customers will turn up to buy something, then the vibrations of the resulting thought form of this person would only attract buyers with a very powerful thought form for buying those particular goods or services from that particular seller. You limit your range of success and achievement when you intend to attract only those who truly want to buy what you sell. Most people do not even know what they should buy.

Success in Business by Using The Law of Attraction

This seems like a waste of money on a survey as for most people when you take away the stress of little or no money life gets better. Another good reason to be successful.

The richer you are, apparently, the better sex you have. That’s according to a recent survey of more than 600 high-net-worth individuals. And rich women, it seems, enjoy sex the most.

“In seeking a higher-quality sexual experience, the number of well-heeled women that lead more adventurous and exotic sex lives, have had an affair or joined the mile-high club far outdistances that of men — and the affluent gender gap in views on sex doesn’t end there,” Hannah Shaw Grove and Russ Alan Prince, two well-known researchers on the habits of the rich and famous, found.

More money, better sex – MSN Money

Have you ever noticed that successful people are positive and unsuccessful people are negative.

A successful person would tell someone that is working on being successful but hasn’t quite gotten there yet to keep at it. An unsuccessful person would tell them to give it up and get a job.

I had dinner with some people last week and also hanged out with some others in a hot tub a couple of days ago and I noticed how negative people can be.

For people that live day to day and have a J.O.B. or just over broke, the normal day to day small talk over dinner or a soak in a hot tub is very negative.

One guy I meet in the hot tub lived six months on the road reading a book a day and soaking in hot tubs. He worked during the summer up north but liked the weather down here in south Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. Sounds like a great life to me. I know many people who would love that lifestyle. He insteads talks about how he can’t dance because his back hurts, that his vacation to Hawaii was horrible, and how the weather at the time was too cold.

At dinner with another group they all complained about being broke. We were in Miami having dinner on the beach with fantastic wine and they complain about the lack of money. It just amazes me. They are taking a meditation class in fabulous Miami and they complain. They look at my girlfriend and myself and think we are aristocrats. I actually had some close friends tell me that a month ago. It surprised me. I never looked at myself as an aristocrat. Who me? That is for royality. But, then I started thinking…well…it’s their perception. I don’t agree with it but it is what they think.

Many gorgeous models say that men will not ask them out on a date because they are intimated by their looks. They automatically think that there is no way so why even bother. So there are many beautiful models that rarely have a date.

I’ve actually had people tell me to stay at a different hotel because the one they are staying at isn’t up to my standards. Or you should eat there but we’ll be eating over there because their place isn’t good enough for me. Or cab drivers that request a 50% tip because that’s “standard”. And on Saturday I had someone tell me to go to a certain nightclub but they go to another one that isn’t as nice because the other one is only for high society types.

So why do so many people complain? Because all their friends do it. It’s normal for them. It’s also a great way to build friends based on what you have in common. “Life sucks! You too? Hi, we should be friends”

I don’t talk negative very much at all. And when I do my girlfriend will say “Why are you limiting yourself?”

It’s one thing to not order wine at dinner because you can’t afford it. It’s another when you announce to the table how broke you are. It works if you want other broke friends that can sit and complain about being broke, but if you want happy successful friends that will encourage you to be successful and may even help you just killed it by being negative. What you say is very very important.

You receive what you ask for. Ask for positive things.

When you become more and more successful you will lose old friends. They get more and more negative with you and they will automatically limit the time they want to see you. I’ve lost some friendships lately and have been unable to form others because they think they can’t “hang out” with me. If you’re positive I would love to be friends with you. I don’t care if you’re poor or rich. I do care what comes out of your mouth. You will gain new friends, friends that support you, friends that believe in you, friends that you can grow with. Be a good friend and encourage others and be positive.