Woodrow Wilson wrote:
I use as many brains as I have and as many brains as I can borrow.
I met a guy this year that is only 22 years old and is in my industry doing the same thing that I'm doing. What impressed me about him was that he had an extremely competent office manager and a competent business manager on his payroll. He pays them generously. And he really gets his investment back in spades. They both do things for him that he doesn't have the time or knowledge to do. Which frees him up to do more productive things like sign new business and motivate others to do the same.
Sometimes it really is not what you have, but how you use it.
Never underestimate the power of denial. - Ricky Fitts
Btw, harbinger, I meant to ask... have you read anything by Brian Tracy, like "Eat that Frog: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time."? I think you'd like it.
(I'd say it's really about setting and achieving your most important goals.)
I had it out of the library until I got some overdue fines on it...
And here, I'll use a (probably very paraphrased) quote from it here:
Use the tools you have right now - imperfect though they may be - and as you go, you will find better ones.
Harbinger wrote:
Woodrow Wilson wrote:
I use as many brains as I have and as many brains as I can borrow.
I met a guy this year that is only 22 years old and is in my industry doing the same thing that I'm doing. What impressed me about him was that he had an extremely competent office manager and a competent business manager on his payroll. He pays them generously. And he really gets his investment back in spades. They both do things for him that he doesn't have the time or knowledge to do. Which frees him up to do more productive things like sign new business and motivate others to do the same.
Sometimes it really is not what you have, but how you use it.
I was totally thinking of "borrowing brains" as meaning getting information of people who are specialists in their areas... because they've done ALLLLL that prior thinking work for you.
Hadn't even THOUGHT about it in the context of delegating stuff to / hiring others, in spite of the fact that was a saying by a president!
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
