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Massachusetts ” Full Service” Commercial and Residential Real Estate Brokerage

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My thoughts

 

 

In my younger days, encouraged by all my  employers who fired me,  I started up a number of businesses. Much to my dismay and deflated ego and my wife looking at me at me funny, I kept on failing  miserably. It wasn’t that didn’t have the drive or the ambition to succeed or the right business location or even the right business. It was that I wasn’t listening. 

 

I realized through self analysis that I was fooling myself. I didn’t know anything about running a business and the fundamentals of sustaining one. 

 

I finally took the advice of the many who have tried to tell me and I  succeeded partly because:

 

  • I saved enough money to live on for 6 months.
  • I hired at CPA, the best one I could find and we keep clean books.
  • I had a realistic plan and put together a doable pro-forma.
  • I followed my plan with some sidesteps to adjust to unforeseeable   events.
  • i worked my butt off and always pushed my way through stumbling blocks.
  • I refused to let pitfalls effect the flow of the business.