Why Every Business Must Render a Service

 “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” ~ Henry Ford

Money is an exchange for a product or service. If you want to succeed in business, you must set out to render a service first and money follows as a consequence. When your business makes nothing but money, you are in a very poor business. A business must first and foremost find a way to make people, shape the environment, and help the economy before it considers making money for the owners. Mr. Ray Kroc advanced this argument more succinctly when he wrote: “If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.” This is the order of priority our civilization expects.

"There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment." So says Orison Swett Marden. Your team always likes that and people in the team show appreciation by working harder. When you build your people, they will help you build your business in return. If you make your central policy the building of people, making money becomes a given when the people you have built begin to help build your business. There are limits to what you can do as a person, but what a team can do is limitless. That is more so when the team is well built, dedicated and motivated.

Get busy right now because…. “No pains, no gains. To get the prize, you must pay the price.”

Why Ordinary People Succeed

“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” Zig Ziglar

Success like winning has rules. If you can follow the rules, you can succeed like all others. That has nothing to do with your race, creed or color. It is the rules that count and nothing else even if you are an ordinary everyday folk. Once you follow the rules, you too can succeed. As David Joseph Schwartz rightly points out, "The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time. A house is built a brick at a time. Football games are won a play at a time. A department store grows bigger one customer at a time. Every big accomplishment is a series of little accomplishments." With discipline and determination while following the rules, any folk can succeed too.

Vince Lombardi adds a very thrilling dimension to the argument when he says, “Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.” Those who succeed to win are people and by the way, so are you!

Get busy right now because…. “No pains, no gains. To get the prize, you must pay the price.”