Comments on: General George Patton’s Secret to Entrepreneurial Success

By: shelia

shelia — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:00:36 +0000

Thankyou you always mske me think!!!

By: jacqui

jacqui — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:16:32 +0000

Good advice and comments from people who this has clearly resonated with. Thank you Steve most sincerely, you put a lot of very valuable info out (some of which I know at a deep level but have somehow forgotten so you have been an instrument by way of reminding me). I don’t think you’re an actual instrument … don’t want you to think of yourself as a guitar or anything! Cheers. Jacqui

By: EMAN

EMAN — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:39:47 +0000

Steve, thanks for thies lessons its realy useful .

I understand your lessons maybe not all that is because our languages are difrent
but i‘m trying to leurne it and take the ideas .
I have no buissenes till now but i‘m study it to pot it in action when i start

EMAN

By: John S Oliver

John S Oliver — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:04:54 +0000

Steve, thanks for this simple lesson and all your useful materials.

This message is timely for me.

I have been putting many hours into developing a detailed mind map for launching the nonprofit I have dreamed of leading for many years. It has been helping me get my thinking and priorities clarified. It is my hope that this will lead to wiser actions.

And because I am using an innovative online service named Comapping I will later invite others to collaborate as things unfold.

This seemed right when I began into this process. But it has been taking longer than I expected and I was doubting the value. Thanks to this timely message I understand that it will pay off in the long term.

By: Russell

Russell — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:33:24 +0000

Steve, We must have parallel reading programs. Three days ago I came upon a small paperback book at the local goodwill store. The book is titled Patton’s One-Minute Messages (Tactical Leadership Skills for Business Managers) by Charles M. Province. It has the wisdom of both Patton and William Edwards Deming. If you have not read it you may enjoy doing so.

By: oliver amesbury

oliver amesbury — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:40:26 +0000

Thanks for another lesson. I know you need to know regardless what you are doing.In the oil field as soon as the stem got out of site they would say all guess work from now on. Any new products I sold I made sure that it was what they said. I would check it out to see if it was what I would want. When I sold John Deere if they put it out I knew it would work. So many things you talk about I am familur with, I still love to read them.

By: Jo Kearney

Jo Kearney — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:37:18 +0000

Hi Steve, thanks for sharing that story! I can most certainly identify with the good General, be a son-of-a-bitch…or not! In my business of Teaching folks to “Turn trash into Cash”, I have found it most usefull to keep “crawling around in the trenches” and in so-doing I have discovered so much about the glass craft industry as well as the recycycling industry. Being a true entrepreneur at heart my strengths lie in pioneering (starting) something then handing it over to somebody else to carry on with, whilst I think up the next “wonder of the world”. With this Bottle Crafting business, I seem to have “lingered longer” and in so doing experienced a great depth of participation in my business than normal. That would NOT have happenend if I did not spend much more time in the trenches!! I am sure that PASSION has something to do with it!?

By: Bob Parkey

Bob Parkey — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:27:40 +0000

Steve, I appreciated what you had to say about Patton and his intimate knowledge of the tank. During the Vietnam war I served at Ft. Hood, Tx in Patton’s 2nd Armoured Division as a track commander. Patton was not reverred in our outfit, in fact, he was cursed as a heartless son-of-a-bitch whose men and their lives meant nothing to him other than a means to an end. I will say, however, his knowledge of warfare and of his opponent made him a force to be recommended with even under the worst of conditions. Having owned a business and being a partner in the start-up of two others, I found the ability to anticipate what the other fellow had as options was invaluable. The most important factor for success I found was merely the ability to withstand whatever hell the day directed your way and still be standing.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:33:23 +0000

Thanks, Steve!Your story reminds me of my father, who spent decades perfecting the design of bilge pumps. He got his hands dirty testing pump designs … with pumps tested in water tanks and running 24/7 until they failed and left clues about why they failed … which led to redesign … on and on and on. Of course, he did not mine the materials from the earth or handle the bookkeeping.Or my sister’s former violin teacher. This particular teacher was a member of a symphony orchestra for a major city. In that role, she practiced her violin for five and a half hours a day. A behind-the-scenes discipline that made her public playing seem effortless. Of course, she did not play every instrument in the orchestra or schedule performances.To know everything about your business, you must immerse yourself in it long term.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:17:39 +0000

What if I already own a biz , Will your program help improve ? Please advise. Thanks Bruce 512-695-8008