55 NOTABLE FACTS ABOUT LIFE AND BUSINESS FROM THE MAFIA MANAGER

No matter what your occupation is, be it self-employed or corporate climber, getting ahead and staying ahead has long been a major concern of all who are not content with merely earning a living. In our eager, sometimes feverish, pursuit of personal pot of gold (and the power and prestige that comes with it), ambitious men and women have sought the knowledge of those who have achieved success before them. 

The Mafia Manager provides for the first time in a book the knowledge and precepts of the ruthless bosses whose genius at organization and management contributed far more to profitability and growth than did the brute strength and recourse to violence of the common, unsophisticated gangster or the conventional wisdom of the legitimate CEO. 

If you are an entrepreneur or business owner and you have not read The Mafia Manager, then you are probably denying yourself knowledge of some no-nonsense leadership and business management techniques for accelerated business growth.

Today, I want to share with you 50 Notable  quotes about life and business from The Mafia Manager. These quotes about life and business are just a tip of the iceberg with respect to what is contained in The Mafia Manager. 

* If you think and act solely for your own benefit, you will reach the top. 

* As we all know, there's plenty of room at the top, though never enough to sit down. 

* Beginner's rule - Keep your mouth shut, your eyes open, your fly zipped and do what you are told. 

* Associate with those better than you and pay full expenses. 

* Never ever get your meat where you get your bread. 

* He who can never endure the bad will never see the good. 

* To survive, be patient - watch, listen and say little. To win, be patient - survive, plan, and then strike swiftly. 

* In the office, don’t stand out, fit in. 

* Remember, the hunter's surest weapon is patience. 

* What you can't buy, you can steal (but don't get caught), and what you can't buy or steal, you can beat out of someone, metaphorically, of course... 

* Sometimes it is better to take a loss than make a gain - especially when you have no choice. 

* If the pot is boiling over, use a long spoon. If the house is on fire; warm yourself.

* Friends are not as important as family. Do not confuse the loyalty of friendship with the bond of blood.

* A man without enemies is a man without qualities. Even Jesus Christ had many enemies.

* If you can’t win by fighting fair, fight foul. Or have a third party do your fighting.

* Even a mouse keeps three holes.

* God will provide, but you must provide till he does.

* A thousand enemies is not enough; a single enemy is. There is nothing as a ‘harmless’ enemy. 

* The best friend of a hungry buzzard is a dead horse. That is in another way of saying; even the son of a bitch has his uses.

* Do business with strangers as if they were brothers and with brothers as if they were strangers. 

* If you can genuinely and sincerely fake honesty, you'll be a success, never doubt it. 

* The golden rule of business - Whoever has the most power makes the rules and takes the gold. 

* Mind your own business, but keep your eyes on other successful businesses. If your neighbor gets up early, you get earlier. 

* Never give business advice to another that doesn't profit you and your own interest. 

* In the free enterprise system, it is big thieves hanging the little ones all the time. 

* When you make an example of someone, make sure that everyone knows what the lesson is. Punish one, teach a hundred. 

* Never worry about tomorrow. Tomorrow, you might inherit a million dollars or be run over by a truck. Or inherit a million dollars and be run over by a truck.

* You can be rich without knowing how to be powerful but you cannot be powerful without money.

* Get others to do as much as they can for you. 

* The best thing to invest in your business is your time. 

* Business comes first, before anything else. Nothing gets in the way, not even wife or girlfriend. 

* Don’t become involved in any office political battle without first asking yourself, ‘What’s in it for me?’ and then ‘What’s in it for them?

* If you must lie, be brief.

*When you hunt, let the game come to you.

* Fear your enemies, not to fear them invites disaster. 

* For peace to reign, be ready for war.

* Let sleeping dogs lie unless you have a lion on your leash.

* Better that your enemies overestimate your stupidity than your shrewdness.

* When stumped for a solution to a particularly difficult problem, look to the past for a solution.

* Be prepared for betrayal from anyone on your staff, but especially from those you have the most trust in. Every betrayal must be repaid as quickly and as publicly as possible. If you should let a betrayal go unpunished, you are through as a leader.

* Remember, not even a machine is 100 percent efficient. Don’t expect the humans who work for you to be.

* Don’t be too familiar with your followers; it may at first inspire affection but eventually, like all familiarity; it will breed contempt.

*Don’t encourage overtime. Tell your people that the best way to impress you is to do a great job in the time allotted for it and then go home and relax.

* Don't hire more than two members of the same household and never hire lovers, no matter how necessary their skills maybe. 

* Never hire someone of the opposite sex in hopes of future erotic reward, unless all you want to do is look. But which of us ever stopped there? 

* The only person you can ever trust completely ever, under any circumstances is yourself. 

* Do not criticize beyond necessity and seldom in public. Always precede criticism with a few words of praise. 

* You can get bad advice from good friends, very bad advice from very good friends. 

* You cultivate the loyalties of others by showing them that their profit lies where yours does. 

* Some workers will never be satisfied, no matter how much money they make. 

* Some of your employees are going to steal from you. It is human nature, count on it. 

* Staring, by most humans and all dogs, is taken as an unfriendly, even menacing, act. 

* People respond from greed, people respond out of fear. That is human nature. 

 * Be wary of people who talk too much, this is frequently a symptom of the compulsive liar. 

* Being kind or a nice guy never put a carpet on anyone's office floor. If you want to be loved, buy a beagle. 

Well this is all the facts about life and business I have for you, if you have read the book and have other facts I didn't pen down, please do share it with us on the comment box below. 

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. WHO SAID YOU CANT?

Who said YOU CANT?

To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will. - Sugar Ray Robinson

Back in the Garden of Eden, when the world was still very young, just after our father Adam and our mother Eve ate the forbidden fruit, they hid themselves from God. In the cool of the day, God came to them and said, Adam, Eve, where are you? They said, God, we are hiding because we are naked. God immediately knew that the enemy the devil has been talking to them. So He said, Adam, who told you that you are naked?

God is asking the same to you right now, who said you cant be great, who said you cant be successful, who said you cant be rich, who said you cant be a blessing to this generation, who said you cant achieve that goal, who said you cant find true love, who said you cant be the best father or mother and husband or wife in the world?

Who said you cant discover and develop your talent, who said you cant preach the gospel, who said you cant heal the sick, who said you cant help the poor, who said you cant give scholarship to a community of children, who said you cant love your neighbor as yourself, who said you cant impact lives in a positive way, who said you cant drop those bad habits of yours?

Who said you cant write your name in the sand of time, who said you cant live a righteous life, who said you are not beautiful or handsome; who said you cant graduate with first class, who said you cant overcome that challenge, who said you were born a mistake or an error?

who said you wont travel to places or tour the world, who said you are lonely, who said you are suffering, who said you are sick, who said you are going to die, who said you cant be a hero, who said you cant be the best child or parent in the world and who said you are a failure? Who! Who! Who said it? If it is anyone, be it your father, teacher, pastor, doctor, friend, sibling, boss etc then it is a big lie from the pit of hell.

If it is you that said it then, am sorry my friend because it might just be true. We are the only ones that can define our lives, not any other person. Brian Tracy wrote You are the architect of your own destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering wheel of your life. There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be. Except the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking. You are confined only by the walls you build yourself. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

If you are going to be successful, you need to give up the phrase I cant and its family members like I wish I were able to, People like me dont do it, Can I really do this? etc. The words I cant actually disempower you. They make you weaker than you were when you said it. Remember Success comes in cans'. Failures come in cants'. 

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WHAT IS AN EDUCATION WORTH?

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." - Malcolm Forbes

Now get this right, am not in anyway saying that education is not important or compulsory. It is very important and I can’t start stating the important of education here because it will take more than half the space provided in this book for other things. But am going to share with you what Brian Tracy said in his book “Create your own future”. 

He said researchers in the Department of Labour in USA found that a person who completes high school would earn about $600,000 over the course of his or her working lifetime. But a person with two-year community college degree will earn about $1,000,000 in his or her lifetime. This work out to an additional $400,000 more than a high school certificate, or about $200,000 more of lifetime income for each additional year of study. 

A university graduate with a four-year diploma will earn about $1,400,00 on average, over the course of his or her lifetime. A person with a master’s degree, equal to approximately five or six years of college education, will learn about $2,000,000 in his or her lifetime. A person with a Ph.D., which requires two to four additional years, will earn an average of $3,000,000. 

Every additional year of schooling after high school will increase your annual income from 8 percent to 25 percent per year, depending upon the relevance of the courses that you take. Brian Tracy wrote “Commit yourself to life long learning. The most valuable asset you will ever have is your mind and what you put into it.” 

 

Education has also made many men and women great and successful. But think about using both education and your God given talent. Think about discovering your talent now and going into the university to read a course that is related to your talent. 

Even if you are in the university now, think about developing your talent now and later using it to work and impact lives, then the sky will be your stepping stone. If you are out of the university, think about finding where your talent is needed and work there, I assure you getting to the top will be easy and smooth. 

Your talent gives you an edge in life. A career is where most people will end up using their developed talent. Can you imagine graduating with a degree in a course that engages your talent? You would be passionate and fully engaged at work because you’d love what you do. Why get a job just to earn a paycheck when you go to work to make a difference? When you are not in your talent zone, you are most likely not passionate about your job. 

The people who grow fastest and get the most done at work are those who love what they do and are good at what they do. This is their talent zone. 

If you know what your natural talents are, you can focus on developing them into strength. Any of you can devote your life to work that is congruent or in harmony with your natural talents and strengths. Most likely, this will be a much better use of your time and generally will make you happier, more effective and more successful. 

Incase you don’t know what your God’s given talent is, don’t worry that is what my book TALENT - THE BOMB is all about. Helping you discover and develop those talents of yours. 

EIGHT SIGNS YOU HAVE FOUND YOUR CALLING

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.” - Martin Luther King Jr

1. IT'S FAMILIAR: A calling comes not just by looking forward to what you will do but by also looking back at what you have done. 

2. IT'S SOMETHING OTHER PEOPLE SEE IN YOU: Sometimes, our vocations are more obvious to people who know us best. It is something you must have received few compliments from people for. 

3. IT'S CHALLENGING: It must be difficult enough that not everyone can do it. It is said that what you can do better than 10000 people is your gift or Talent. 

4. IT REQUIRES FAITH: It cannot be something so obvious that you can easily explain it. It must be mysterious but at the same time, you are sure deep down even if you can't explain it. 

5. IT TAKES TIME: You have to fail your way in the right direction before you find it and this requires a lot of time and patience. 

6. IT'S MORE THAN JUST ONE THING: It integrates well with the rest of your life, not competing with but complementing your top priorities. 

7. IT IS BIGGER THAN YOU: The task must be so large that without a team of people,  you cannot complete it on your own. And it must be about helping a vast majority of people. 

8. IT MAKES YOU HAPPY: Finally, it must make you really happy, gives you a sense of belonging and fulfillment whenever you are carrying it out.

If you have found your calling, Please feel free to add how you came to be sure it was your calling. 

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What FEARS YOU need to FACE?

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then. -Thomas Carlyle

One day, on the plains of Africa, a young buffalo named Walter approached his dad and asked him if there was anything that he should be afraid of.

Only lions my son, his dad responded.

Oh yes, Ive heard about lions. If I ever see one, Ill turn and run as fast as I can, said Walter.

No, thats the worst thing you can do, said the large male.

Why? They are scary and will try to kill me.

The dad smiled and explained, Walter, if you run away, the lions will chase you and catch you. And when they do, they will jump on your unprotected back and bring you down.

So what should I do? asked Walter.

If you ever see a lion, stand your ground to show him that youre not afraid. If he doesnt move away, show him your sharp horns and stomp the ground with your hooves. If that doesnt work, move slowly towards him. If that doesnt work, charge him and hit him with everything youve got!

Thats crazy; I will be too scared to do that.

What if he attacks me back? said the startled young buffalo.

Look around, Walter. What do you see?

Walter looked around at the rest of his herd. There were about 200 massive beasts all armed with sharp horns and huge shoulders. If ever youre afraid, know that we are here. If you panic and run from your fears, we cant save you, but if you charge towards them, well be right behind you.

The young buffalo breathed deeply and nodded. Thanks dad, I think I understand.

We all have lions in our worlds. There are aspects of life that scare us and make us want to run, but if we do, they will chase us down and take over our lives. Our thoughts will become dominated by the things that we are afraid of and our actions will become timid and cautious, not allowing us to reach our full potential.

So face your fears. Show them that youre not afraid. Show them how powerful you really are. And run towards them with courage and boldness, knowing that we are supporting you and cheering you on. May you always do what you are afraid to do.

What fears do you need to face at the moment?

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WHEN LAST DID YOU SHARPEN YOUR AXE?

If I am given ten hours to cut down a tree, I will spend the eight hours sharpening my cutlass.  Abraham Lincoln

Once upon a time, a very strong woodcutter asked for a job in a timber merchant and he got it. The pay was really good and so was the work condition. For those reasons, the woodcutter was determined to do his best. His boss gave him an axe and showed him the area where he supposed to work. The first day, the woodcutter brought 18 trees. Congratulations, the boss said. Go on that way! Very motivated by the boss words, the woodcutter tried harder the next day, but he could only bring 15 trees. 

The third day he tried even harder, but he could only bring 10 trees. Day after day he was bringing less and less trees. I must be losing my strength, the woodcutter thought. He went to the boss and apologized, saying that he could not understand what was going on. 

When was the last time you sharpened your axe? the boss asked. 

Sharpen? I had no time to sharpen my axe. I have been very busy trying to cut trees... 

Our lives are like that. We sometimes get so busy that we dont take time to sharpen the axe. In todays world, it seems that everyone is busier than ever, but less happy that ever. Why is that? Could it be that we have forgotten how to stay sharp? Theres nothing wrong with activity and hard work. But we should not get so busy that we neglect the truly important things in life, like our personal life, taking time to get close to our Creator, giving more time for our family, taking time to read etc. We all need time to relax, to think and meditate, to learn and grow. 

If we dont take the time to sharpen the axe, we will become dull and lose our effectiveness.

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