December 31, 2004

business is the art…

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: “Busi­ness is the art of get­ting some­body to where they need to be, fas­ter than they would get there without you.“
–Hard to do if nobody’s tal­king.
[Just added this minor tweak to The Hugh­train…]

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6 Responses to “business is the art…”

  1. SV says:
    December 31, 2004 at 1:48 PM

    Thank you for the won­der­ful posts for 2004 and am loo­king for­ward to rea­ding more in 2005. Happy New Year.

  2. Dave Wheeler says:
    December 31, 2004 at 2:07 PM

    I would also like add my thanks for all your posts in 2004. They have been both enter­tai­ning and thought pro­vo­king (which is a GREAT com­bi­na­tion). Keep up the good work.

  3. Roland says:
    December 31, 2004 at 2:29 PM

    I just read
    “Busi­ness is the art of gut­ting some­body…“
    and it didn’t feel all that wrong. Guess there’s a lot of hugh­trai­ning to be done.

  4. Valdis says:
    December 31, 2004 at 3:16 PM

    Exactly! All of my very sati­si­fied cus­to­mers are the ones where the con­ver­sa­tion con­ti­nues after the sale, and star­ted before the sale. Not only is the client more satis­fied, but we are also!
    Others, just want a pro­duct and no inte­rac­tion — “why are you asking me these ques­tions about my needs, it is none of your busi­ness!” “Yep, you are right, it IS none of my busi­ness, here is a competitor’s URL. Good Luck!”

  5. Colleen says:
    December 31, 2004 at 8:19 PM

    Funny. I feel the same way about that ulti­mate forum for (per­so­nal) growth, pri­mary rela­tionships. I love that the farther down the rab­bit hole we go, the more everything links to everything else.
    Or maybe I just made my Ame­ri­cano too strong this morning…

  6. Brand New Malaysian says:
    January 1, 2005 at 10:39 PM

    The Big Idea is to Have One

    The rigours behind crea­tive thin­king was always to leve­rage off a sin­gle big idea that trans­cends all crea­ti­ves and beco­mes a sin­gu­lar point of attrac­tion in your adver­ti­se­ments. The thing with this theory is that just because one per­son (and…