Years ago when I started a nightclub business called TriangleFiesta I made a strategic decision that ended up serving me well. From my days of working in agribusiness I remembered the words of Dr. Gordon Hazard when he said, "Don't invest in...

'Festina Lente', translated 'Make haste slowly' or 'Hurry slowly', are the oft quoted words of Augustus Caesar . As an entrepreneur you are bombarded by advice that either recommends that you plow forward without procrastination...

When looking for new employees I like to follow the advice of Warren Buffet who said that he seeks "three character traits: integrity, energy and intelligence, in that order..." He also said that, "if you don't have the first trait...

I began playing chess around age three and have learned several important entrepreneurial lessons from the game. There are two basic types of chess, one is untimed and the other has maximum time limits on how long to make each move. Over the years I noticed...

My Uncle Bill gave me some of the simplest, most cogent advice on hiring sales executives when he said: "Try to hire salespeople who are expecting their first baby". His point was that the most effective sales people are ones with MASSIVE incentive...

As you are developing and refining your business ideas it is critical that understand the dangers of over innovation. By 'over innovation', I mean the creation of ideas and products that are so far ahead of their time that no markets exist for...

Jon Dewar , my business partner, told me that his dad once explained that to conquer and rule a nation you needed to understand three things: Economics, Agriculture, and War. Jon's dad was a high ranking colonel in the Army and later a historian who...